Coming back and going freelance

Back updating ZhngSuiSui. Anyway, I’ve just made a biggest decision of my life.

Quit my job and go for freelance

I don’t find anything bad about working freelance. Instead, I find it both challenging and exciting. I’ve been working in a web developing team for 6 months. Due to the size of the company, I only get to crop pictures and design with restriction and limited colours. A few of us, who also came to work at the same times has one common idea about our experience here, our design going backward. Due to the restriction and limited colours, we cannot explore too much in the office. We all tied up with only one client.

I’ve been working on WordPress theme design for one year exactly. Not only did I get enough saving every month, I also gain a lot of experience in WordPress coding and design different web and client. I need to multitask a lot, from replying client to designing and developing. An all in one experience.

Freelance is not free

Just so your friends and my friends know, freelance doesn’t mean we have all the time on hand. We need to keep up with business, clients and sometimes blogs. The hardest thing I find becoming a freelance is the time management, I tend to get lazy from time to time because I just have all the time on hand at the moment. Sometimes I fear for free time too, because as a freelancer – If you’re free, you’re fucked!

Important experiences

A few experiences that freelance can gain are branding and marketing. Unlike working in web design firm, if you’re web designer, all you need to do is design and more design, nothing else beside design. You don’t get to learn how to brand the client, you may gain design experience, but does it worth that much? I doubt it. Nowadays, a design doesn’t cost much, especially when Internet become so common that people can log onto a web and buy one set of design for free or for a very low price. You need to gain more than just design and coding a web.

Starting from tomorrow, there will be more update on this site, because I’m free :)

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