I am a freelance worker. I am a writer. I write articles, blog posts, advertisements, essays, articles, and I’m hoping to get into the greeting card business, lol. I absolutely LOVE being my own boss. (We’ll see how much I love paying self-employment tax when April 15th rolls around, but that’s another blog post).
Thanks to the Internet, freelance work has exploded. I believe that freelancers are some of the happiest working people on earth. 
The hardest thing, in my opinion, is finding work. Businesses don’t always blast their needs with trumpets, ya know what I mean? You have to have ways of finding what you’re looking for.
I have seen a website called TheFreelanceNation.com and it looks stupendous! I thought I’d share. They have a large, comprehensive listing of freelance jobs, whether they be temporary jobs, or things to boost you along in your freelance career. They have a great forum, newly begun. They also have loads of other resources and articles for all kinds of work and other necessities geared toward bringing the freelancer and the employer together. At the website, we can connect with freelancers or make bids on jobs, post a profile, or a project, or a job your business needs filled! (Or, you can just contact me using the Contact Me Form, hehehe). There are loads of articles to help with taxation (*sigh*), administration, accounting, and more. It’s a great resource for the freelancer and for the businessman looking for temporary help. I have always wanted to have my own “business” in my own home– and thanks to the Internet and sites like TheFreelanceNation.com, I can! It’s going in my bookmarks for future jobs, I suggest you check it out, too!
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Tags: freelance, small business, writing
August 5th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Thanks for the tip! I would absolutely love to freelance and leave my public relations job (working for The Man sucks).
I’ll have to check that out…