Top 5 Reasons Why you should not do freelancing in 2024?

What is freelancing might be the most intriguing question of many full-time job holders to earn extra income for their family on what is commonly labeled as an "extra gig". Freelancing provides wonderful opportunities, flexible working hours, and remote work contributing to the overall economic workflow. But it has been really uncertain and unstable since its rise. Even today tech fellows, IT nerds, and Private Consultants in the freelancing sector have high hopes for freelancing platforms. Contrarily, platforms seem to never care about freelancers, scam them after the work is done, never pay the amount in time, stress the freelancers with their pay deduction policy, and terminate the contract without any prior information. Often, clients use freelancing platforms as the smart way to underpay workers because they can easily hire entry to mid-level Asian and African citizens in the pay rate which is way lower than the average market rate. Here are a few reasons why you should not do freelancing in 2024:

1. Freelancing Platforms are starting to charge indirect fees:
   
   Though a legit freelancing platform does not ask for any charge directly, platforms like Upwork ask freelancers to buy connects to land their first project. Though connects was introduced to prevent fake job applications, Upwork seems more interested in the bucks freelancers spend to buy connects rather than assisting freelancers to find the right client. If your only way to land a project is through buying connects, that simply doesn't sound good.
   
   
2. Freelancing market is oversaturated:
   
   It might sound cowardly not to go to war by looking at the ammunition of an opponent, but some things are still not possible and not even worthy even if it is achieved. Freelancing is moving in that direction. A long race of freelancers in infinite directions for a bare pay rate for the sake of flexible hours is not really flexible, resilient, and reliable.
   
   
   
3. Intermittent Workflow and concerns of missing Invoices:
   
   Freelancers often deal with intermittent workflow and uncertain deadlines. In many platforms, there are issues related to missing invoices which highlights the carelessness of the management team. Too much dealing and competing for extra gigs is not worth it in the long run and doesn't really build your profile if you are a student or fresher.
   
   
   
4. Low Pay Rate:
   
   Freelancers are always offered a pay rate, lower than the average market rate for the same piece of work. Often, Asians, Africans, and Immigrants are disadvantaged in this category. 
   
   
   
5. Too Difficult to Start:
   
   Even for an industry expert, getting the first project is way challenging. Some too many well-established freelancers have been in the market for a long time taking all good opportunities. However blaming well-skilled people for taking on projects doesn't seem to be sporty thinking, but even skilled people with proper portfolios and good knowledge of the market face struggles to start out. 

Quitting freelancing is not due to the reasons of uncertainty, inflation, low pay rate, intermittent work, or challenging to start, these are the prevailing things in all other industries out there. What sets freelancing apart is that all the struggle you do is not rewardworthy.

 

"Do you still want your work and time to be mistreated?"
"Do you still want to struggle with no deserving applause and rewards?"
"Do you still want to face unnecessary ways to fill up your extra time instead of giving yourself a new journey of productivity?"
"Do you still want freelancing?"

The choice is all yours.