Hi Its been a year now since I am working all alone online. I feel sometime so tied up with work, I dont know who to turn for help. But again I work so hard to complete the projects. SO how many of you work all alone? I thought of getting some people to work but simply don't think I would be ready for that much of investment right now. I am doing well right now, earning good piece of cash which is not that bad. And I thought if I want to earn more, I HAVE to get more human resource to do that. What do you think? I thought I would share it. Digital duke
I work alone most of the time. I have several freelance friends with expertise in different areas to me - so we often throw a few bucks at each other to solve problems.
I have tried twice to find a partner that has skills that would compliment mine and both were a disaster. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.
i work on my own too. I think you should look into developing some sort of relations with someone to help you with your work but not necessarily make him a partner. To me a partner is someone with whom you split stuff 50-50 and it gets hard to make sure both of you do the same amount of work and all that. What i recommend is that you hire someone to work for you part time, mainly to reduce the load on you when you get tired or need a break...a smaller investment that getting someone full time and not as troublesome as getting a partner. While i work on my own i do hire people to do stuff for me because theres some tasks i just find to repetitive and dont have the patience to do myself, so dont hesitate to outsource, but make sure you hire reliable people who will do the job the way you would do it or better.
Just like with any big decision there are pros and cons to both sides. On the good side, you work your own hours, only have to account for yourself, make all the decisions, make all the money (and lose it too) and can really do whatever you want. On the other side, if you work with other people or hire people to work for you, there is a much bigger potential for you to make a whole lot more money. The only down fall is that most of the time, the people who work with you or for you probably won't do the best job for you and you'll find yourself doing a lot more managing than actual work--plus, you have to pay yourself last (most of the time). I guess the decision is really yours, but when it comes down to it, one has to figure out what works best for them, ya know?
I have done some outsourcing, too. I would say I have had 50/50 good experiences/bad experiences with that. That has been kind of hard to find people that actually do what they say.
I've been working along for the better part of two years now, miss having collegues around me, but it is by far outweighed by not having any boss around I do the coding work myself and outsource just about all of the design work. works out nice as I can't draw worth anything.. (looking for freelance QUALITY designers btw). In the future I see myself hanging out at the edge of a pool somewhere with a laptop in my lap doing the odd hour of work now and then and a couple employee's taking care of the bulk of the workload Anyone else having this dream? hehe