Freelancing Online In Pakistan

Freelancers are self-employed people working on assignments with multiple companies or individuals on different terms and contracts. Freelancing is when you are providing your services to your customers on a contract and self-employed basis, not as their employee. It has different advantages and disadvantages.

End the end it all depends on your preference and lifestyle as to how you like to use your skills. Some people like to go for a regular 9 to 5 job with money coming into their bank monthly. Others are not happy with working with one company and getting an average salary for what they can get double or even three times as self-employed.

Pakistan is a fast-growing country, being third world country Pakistan has a lot to catch up with and it's doing well which is opening new opportunities for people in all fields. Pakistan is progressing in IT by leaps and bounds.

Every new day brings a firm trying to digitalis or a new company trying to build its website or existing companies building up firewalls etc. This gives people the opportunity to work as a freelancer for such companies than to work for a company who takes contracts with these companies and pay you less than 10% of what they are charging these companies

The advantages and disadvantages of freelancing in Pakistan.

Advantages

• Salaries are not catching up with fast-growing inflation, and companies are not revising salaries of the workers fairly according to their growth. So when you are freelancing you are getting all the profit. You do not have to work on 5 different projects and get paid your fixed salary which might not even be the 10% of what your company is getting from each project. When you are freelancing you get all the profits and that might be more than your whole month's salary

• You are your own boss, so there is just a deadline you have to deal with. No pressure, no 9 to 5 sift, not commute. You can work as much as you like or as little as you like on a particular day and can make up for it the next day without anybody saying anything to you. As you are your boss so you know what is best for your business.

• As you are not going to an office so you can just relax in your normal clothes and not have to worry about your attire. You can be just home sipping tea or enjoying a cold drink while working on your projects.

• As you are in the comfort of your home you would be more effective and efficient, no distraction or interface makes you more productive.

• If you love traveling than freelancing is for you, as your feet are not bound to one place. You can be working from the Bahamas enjoying holidays with your family and still being able to work whenever you can.

• You deal with all sorts of people when you get different contracts from different companies. This makes you more confident about dealing with people and you learn more from different companies.

There are some disadvantages to this as well;

• As much as being your own boss is fun and liberating, there come more responsibilities as well. You have to wear all the hats as you are the one dealing with the deadlines, payments, advertising your business to keep a continuous flow of the projects to keep your business running and you are the credit controller as well.

• Cash flow is not always continuous as it is in a fixed job. You get the salary on time, at least in most cases, and you do not have to worry about what would happen once your assignments ended. There is this uncertainty about it, whether or not you will get enough contracts to make a good living and successful business etc

• Credit control is the hardest part. As some clients are not always willing to pay in time. Chasing payment could be very stressful and time and money consuming

• Sometimes it can get very difficult to separate your work life from your personal life. If you haven't managed the time properly or have bitten more than you can chew then it could be very difficult for you to stop working. You can find yourself working all the time, on parties and gathering, you feel like you have to work to meet your targets. With offices fixed hour you know when to start working and when to stop and leave it all behind. But when you are working from home you might find yourself overworked especially near your deadlines.

Epilogue

So, as we saw that like most works freelancing has its pros and cons so it's just about your own personal choice as to what you prefer. So people like to play it safe and do not like the uncertainty that surrounds freelance even though it might be a better option. Freelancing in Pakistan has given women a new opportunity to work from home while abiding by the restrictions of their families of not working in an office environment or going out of the house. It's has been beneficial for moms who cannot leave their kids with anyone. They can freelance as well as look after their kids and house.

Freelancing is not only beneficial for the freelancers but also for their clients as they do not have to pay too much to a big company for something that could be done at a lesser price, and as the freelancers do not have many contacts at one time they can pay more attention to the contract in hand. And if a company needs a website and IT maintenance once every few weeks they can just have a contract with an individual who would charge them for the work he has done not for a yearly contract or not a fixed salary as they would have to pay to their employees.

Websites like EE Stone provides a perfect platform for freelancers to meet their client and give their offer and provide their services with client prepaying into EE stones account for the safety of the freelancer and his client and would release it when requested to be released. This is how no one can be scammed and freelancers would not have to worry about delayed payments.