How your 9-5 job will help you build up your freelancing career
This is always my main or general advice when it comes to beginner freelancers who want to start freelancing: Do Not Quit Your 9-5 Job Immediately.
There are so many ways in which you could benefit from your full-time job while you are building your freelancing career, and here in this post, I will discuss them with you one by one, and I’ll do my best to explain them all to you in a clear and simple way.
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Why Should You Not Quit?
Freelancing is exciting at first. You create your freelance profile and portfolio. It’s possible you bought a new laptop. You organised your bedroom to have a workspace to do your freelancing, and the income is maybe what makes it so wonderful to start.
And then suddenly, before you went to sleep, you were thinking, What if I quit my full-time job so I could focus more on my freelancing?
And that’s the reason why you should STOP and read this post before you go to sleep and wake up tomorrow morning decided to handle your resignation.
So, here are the reasons why you shouldn’t quit your 9-5 job before and after you start freelancing:
Your monthly salary can help fuel your freelancing career.
By using your monthly payment from your 9-5 job, you can save and buy the equipment and tools that you need in your freelancing. Like for example, a laptop, a headset, and your work-from-home essentials like a mouse pad and a working chair to help you be comfortable for a long sitting.
Your monthly salary gives you the financial stability to invest in learning new skills.
By using your salary, it will help you to enrol in those courses that you need to improve yourself. While you haven’t found any clients yet and are still looking, you can also use your available time to learn, study and improve your skills.
Your salary can be used to pay for the subscriptions that you use for your freelancing.
Like a subscription in Notion, Canva Pro, Adobe, or an Upwork paid plan or anything that helps you with your freelancing work. Because learning how to use them is one of the most important assets that a freelancer should have.
Your combined income – freelance earnings and monthly salary – can help you save faster.
Combining them will help you achieve your financial goals faster. For example, savings for an emergency fund, savings for a travel fund, investments, paying off your debt, and a lot more. Just learn to allocate your budget and track and monitor it so you will know where your money goes.
You are not stable yet.
And because of this one reason, this is the answer to the question of why you shouldn’t quit your 9-5 job. You still have much to learn. Tools, equipment, platforms and resources. You still need to save some money and fix your finances, and you still need to learn all the basics of how freelancing works and everything.
Final Thought:
This blog post may be short, but it has a lot of information that you need to know before quitting your job. I’m not saying don’t do it anymore, but learn to time it. Learn to analyse how and when you should quit so you can pay more attention to your freelancing business.
And besides, once you have the basics, the knowledge, and the strategy, it won’t be hard for you to quit your 9-5 once you implement them all properly and in the right way. And also, if you kept continuing to get more clients, that’s the signal to think about handling your resignation letter to your boss.
I hope this post encourages you to think carefully before making hasty decisions you may regret later.
Find Me Here:
- How Exactly Freelancing Works and Why You as a Beginner Should Read This
- Side Hustles I Actually Do (and Recommend)
- Why You Shouldn’t Quit Your 9-5 Job When You Start Freelancing
- Small Beginner Freelancing Mistakes That Have a Big Impact Later
- Work-From-Home Essentials for a Simple and Comfortable Setup
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