12 Sep 09 3 Reasons You Would Not Like to Freelance

Till now, everyone said to you that freelancing is fun, and it gives you a control over what you want to do and how you want do the work assigned to you. You do not have a boss, and no one is going to tell you when to work and when to sleep.

Well…

This is not far from the truth but there is another point of view on this matter, which I am going to share in this blog post.

You should not take freelancing as a career if:

You do not want a boss

Well, if you do not want a boss for yourself than freelancing is not a career choice for you, indeed, you do not have “a boss” here, but you have bosses here. Your clients are your boss and often they will be more than one in number, and everyone will be asking for your 100 percent attention to his or her work, so if you feel uncomfortable in working with a boss then look somewhere else, freelancers have more than one bosses.

You do not like late night shifts

If occasional late night shifts make you convulse then freelancing may not be a right career choice for you. You need to work day in and day out, sometime without a break for days, if you want to be successful as a freelancer. Freelancing is a business, not a fix-time job. It will require your 1000 percent contribution, not just your presence in the employer’s office.

You cannot add value

Contrary to what you think, freelancers are supposed to be more efficient than the regular fix-time employee. Your client is outsourcing his work, instead of hiring someone fulltime to do that work, because he or she wants more work done by paying less dollars.

I know, “how much is less and how many is too many” are relative concepts.

As a freelancer, you will have to make many decisions. Decisions related to work, finance, time, negotiations and what not. You are running a one-man show, if you are freelancing. Can you do it? Do you have it in you?

Write to me, if you think you can. Use the comment box below or mail me on Bikram [at] biksy [dot] com.

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22 Apr 09 How Much Better Is An Ergonomic Keyboard Really?

Ergonomic keyboards, how effective are they really? Any ergonomic keyboard will advertise itself as being the better choice for keyboard comfort, as well as the best choice for avoiding any of the negative side effects that can come with a career involving a lot of typing. But how much good do they actually provide? The truth is that ergonomic keyboards actually aren’t any more beneficial than a regular keyboard. The more important factor than how your keyboard is designed, is how exactly you use your keyboard.

First off you want to make sure that you’re sitting in the correct position. You want to have your back comfortably supported, and your chair raised to an appropriate level from the ground so that you can sit comfortably with your elbows bent and your forearms parallel to the ground. You also want your hands to be raised high enough above your keyboard so that both wrists are straight, you don’t want an upward or downward curve as this can affect blood flow after a prolonged period of time. After all, we’re all well aware that typing the wrong way can lead to any number of disorders, whether it be deformation of the joints in your fingers, to Carpal Tunnel syndrome.

You also want to ensure that your keyboard is set appropriately upon your desk, you don’t want it raised too high, or sitting too low. You want to be able to type effectively without moving your hands out of the position described above. As long as your wrists can be kept comfortably straight, you’ll be just fine.

Probably the final factor you’d need to worry about in any way is just the placement of your mouse. You don’t want your mouse to be a very far distance away from your keyboard, and you also want your mouse to be at about the same height as your keyboard. As with a keyboard, you want to be able to keep your wrist straight as you use the mouse, that way you can guarantee you won’t do any damage by working with your body’s natural movement inclinations.

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12 Sep 09 3 Reasons You Would Not Like to Freelance

You do not want a boss

You do not like late night shifts

You cannot add value

22 Apr 09 How Much Better Is An Ergonomic Keyboard Really?

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