Freelancer

Many of us have heard the word “freelancing and freelancer”. Who are these guys who are called as freelancers and what do they do? How do they earn? Why are they considered to be so cool? Can you also become a free ancer? Read on to find out what our group of engineers explored about freelancers and freelancing.

We had a very tiring day at the college. As we were very tired we decided to go to our friend Sutej,s house, rest there for a while and later continue our journey towards our homes. We went to his house and found that his room was open. We walked in. Sutej was not there. We sat in the room for a while and took some rest by leaning towards the wall. My friend Sutej suddenly broke into the room with a very good and interesting topic to discuss. He spoke about his uncle, who worked for nobody and yet earned quite handsomely from the unique photographs which he captured and edited using Photoshop. He never worked for a fixed amount of time per day as most of the officials do. He was a guy who had detained in his studies and was thrown out of college because of his huge list of pending subjects. His uncle never took his life seriously (that’s what we concluded from the above facts, but later we found out that we were absolutely wrong).He started working instantaneously and gained enough success in the field of photography by working under an expert photographer for a period of five months. Later he set sails with a business of his own. All the money he had earned by working for his boss was invested into a very good camera. I quickly understood that his uncle was a freelancer in photography. 

The way Sutej described the lifestyle of his freelancer uncle, we became extremely impressed and curious to meet him. Luckily, his uncle got bored by the climate and came upstairs in order to meet Sutej. Then onwards a completely new story started :the story of freelancers and freelancing. The moment his uncle entered the room our friend Sutej started the introduction part. His freelancer uncle was quite surprised to know that I was also doing the same thing which he was doing: freelancing. He asked me, if I had a web-site of my own? I nodded my head denoting a no. He suggested me to buy some space and start blogging. He said that it would earn me more money and would make things look professional.

Many of my friends were not interested in freelancing till now, They were book worms who were interested in studying well and getting good jobs. Hence they were quite insular to such topics. They never understood what we were so proud and excited about. When Sutej’s uncle looked at the blank faces of my friends he understood the situation and hence revised the topic of freelancing jobs with a small introduction so that nobody shall stay aloof in the conversation.

First of all, he spoke about the very different and carefree life he was living as a freelancer: No boss to scold you, order you, tell you what you have to do, etc. A world where you can live as and how you like. A world which is completely your’s. A world where there is no boss. A world where you are the king and there is nobody else in and around to advise you or give you orders. A place where there is complete freedom. A place where you can earn as much as you like, with no restrictions whatsoever. Slowly my friends started realizing the world of freelancing with their blank faces turning into smiling faces.

All my friends were interested in the earning part. Where does the money come from? How does a freelancer earn? And it was at this point that we understood how hard it is to become a freelancer and earn ones daily bread and butter living. Sutej’s uncle started off with a huge laugh. He said that the money earned by the freelancer depends directly upon the quality of his work. Mr. Manu (his name) told us about how he got into the real business world as a free lancer. He was doing freelancing photography for a long time (one year) and was posting his freelancing photographs on the website- Flickr.com. His photographs seemed very dull to him when he compared his work with that of the expert freelancer photographers. Later he got acquainted with a very good photographer called David at Orkut who was also earning as a freelancer. He chatted with Mr. David for a while and understood his own shortcomings. The reason why the photographs of the other freelancer photographers looked so great was because they were edited by them again and again using Photo editing softwares till the desired picture was obtained. In fact he came to know that many a photographs which showed the reflection of the objects in the water reservoirs were made using Adobe Photoshop. Now the freelancer journey of Mr. Manu actually started. He took a book of Adobe Photoshop and started experimenting with the various photographs taken by him. All these freelance photographs were pasted by him at Flickr. He found that the response he was getting now was far more better than the previous ones as a free lancer.

One fine morning this freelancer got an email from an executive of one of the leading companies of the world telling him that the company wanted to buy a few photographs of his, and also wanted him to take a few snapshots for the company endorsements. And then the real adventure began in the life of this freelancer. He got a very good breakthrough and a very good payment for his work. 

We were all looking at those smiling eyes which spoke of his unlimited happiness of those times. A few months later he had started getting offers from foreign companies who wanted a freelancer photographer to do their work efficiently and at a reasonable cost. Mr. Manu had by now hired a web-designer and database managing engineer to look after his website which had his collection of unique and mind blowing photographs in it. He does not earn much through the site. The site is just an advertisement which shows his photography skills. So if anybody searches for a photographer on the web they should be able to see his site which showed his best photographs ever taken. 

We were all very excited to become such freelancers who are demanded on an international platform. And my journey has already started as a young and enthusiastic writer who has the confidence of winning thousands of hearts with the help of his writings. I agree that there is a lot more that is still unlearnt. But this small fact shall not stop me from reaching my aim. Let us all try out some free-lancing business at some point in our life and see how we withstand the blow of the international competition. Have a nice day as a freelancer !!!!!!!!!