Four Reasons Why I Don’t Want to Be a Freelancer Any More

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I am a coward.

Despite the prevalent American ideals of self-reliance, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, and industriousness, all I want is a decent job that gives me a steady paycheck and my own personal slice of quiet desperation. I even gave that a shot right out of college, securing employment at an online retail company for two years before I was laid off due to the struggling economy. I gave it another shot after that, this time working at a large law firm, before I was let go again two months later.

So, with no real immediate job prospects, I started surfing job boards for freelance writing gigs. Somehow, even though I was just looking for a way to make some food money until I got my real job (which never came despite hundreds of resumes sent to companies in every industry imaginable), I wound up getting enough work to freelance full time eventually.

But while most people might have been glad that they got fired when they did, thus leading down this unexpected path of self-employment, I’m a little less enthusiastic.

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