Being a freelance web consultant, it is hard for me to find a good place to work at, especially in a city like Los Angeles. Sure a lot of us prefer to work at Starbucks since there is no cost, you get meet random people sometimes but it can be quite packed sometimes or hard to focus with everything that’s happening inside the coffee house. If you’re a student like me, perhaps working from home or at your local library, or perhaps school. The disadvantage of the library and school however is that it may not let you have access to your server for FTP uploading and such and theres quite some restrictions on their networks, and perhaps it may even be monitored. I currently work as a freelancer from home. Although it is easy, there’s also a disadvantage such as household errands. Eventually, if you work at home and your spouse or roommate works onsite at whatever job they are doing, you will consider doing more household chores and errands more often, or they will blame you if something is not right in the home.

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Lately, my freelancing career, or should I call it self-started business has picked up. With the recent completions of several jobs, I find it now easier to find new clients. The experience gained from these past several months on freelancing has helped me greatly and I’d thought I’d take a few minutes out of the day to share my thoughts.

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