Believing in yourself can be a struggle for anyone. When you work for yourself, that struggle is often intensified. As a self-employed person, you don’t have a boss or coworkers to give you professional feedback. You may feel like you’re…
Americans have been freelancing for hundreds of years. More and more all the time are starting to enjoy the freedom, the income and the lifestyle that freelancing can give you. The number of U.S. freelancers has grown to at least…
Canadians are rocking the freelance landscape. As of 2018 there were approximately 2,860,000 Canadian freelancers making up about 15% of the country’s workforce, according to Statistics Canada. A new study by Intuit Canada revealed that freelancers, independent contractors and on-demand…
Have you ever heard of Freelancers Union? It’s the United States’ largest and fast-growing organization representing the country’s millions of independent workers. Based in New York City, Freelancers Union was founded in 1995 by lawyer Sara Horowitz and today has…
(The paperback edition of Work at Home is being offered for free for a limited time only. You do have to pay for shipping. You can order your free copy of Work at Home right here.) “Making money is not…
All over the world, more and more people are freelancing all the time. Working for yourself is awesome, but it has its challenges too. When you're a freelancer you're the boss. You have to be able to motivate yourself. You…
(UPDATED MARCH 19, 2019) Freelancers have many advantages in work and in life. Unfortunately, one of these advantages is not taxes. As a matter of fact, taxes are probably the only disadvantage of working for yourself. The tax situation for…