You consider your self a freelancer if you...

hi mike! i'm a freelancer since 2006. :) often, freelancers are associated with writers and artists who provide services to several different employers without being tied to long-term and exclusive contracts. now, freelancers can be anyone working independently or someone working for himself (self-employed) who is in the business of providing services for a fee, may have short-term contracts but not in a regular payroll exclusive to one company alone. being a freelancer is being your own boss, dictating the kind and type of work you do, the hours involved, setting your fees and pace and you can have a vacation whenever you want to. simply because, a freelancer is not tied in the personnel guidelines of a specific company. there are fulltime and parttime freelancers. parttime freelancers...if you work as a regular employee by a company, and work some hours doing freelance work for other people. a fulltime freelancer is when he does freelance jobs as his main source of income. i've been a freelancer since 2006. i do a lot of stuff. mainly i'm involved in microfinance. i do trainings, research and consultancy work. i work as an independent but i'm associated with different councils and groups in microfinance. when i'm free and taking personal time off, i do other stuff like writing (just recently), admin work, food catering, associate research, tutoring, travel coordination and a few investments on some other businesses. i do a lot of work for family and friends, most are free but i get referrals from them so indirectly i get work also because of providing my services for free. freelancing is not as lucrative as when i had my regular job, but i got more free time than i used to and i can travel and have a vacation whenever i want. hope this helps. goodluck to your book! :)

Being a writer for the school publication and a contributor to several magazine firms is somewhat exhausting because of deadline pressures. In our school publication where we are given different task for every release, there's really a need to cope with the demands of the studentry. Sometimes you're assigned to make a literary article, then other times you'll be assigned to do an investigative feature. Although it may seem hard, a good writer is someone who can improve his/her level of expertise and expand his knowledge in different fields of writing. As a freelance writer myself, the main task of my work is not just to write whenever I feel like it, but also to keep up with the interests of my readers and reach out to more and more readers through different fields of writing.