If you are a freelancer, you can do whatever you like. If you are passionate about something and that has demand in the market, you can use your skills to do freelancing. You can choose your clients, so you are free to work with anyone. You can work on your own schedule. You can go on a vacation or sit on the beach and work from your laptop.

It looks pretty cool to hear. Let me tell you something that you usually do not hear. When you start freelancing, you understand the reality. You are free to do anything and take a break whenever you can. Yes, you can, but being a freelancer you have a lot of responsibility. You have to take the pressure to do the work perfectly and submit the work in time.

Freelancers usually work from marketplace like upwork. They have to get the job by bidding and have to face a lot of competition. At the beginning of freelancing career, it is difficult to get the first job. When you get the first job, it gets easier to get the next job. But still you have to face the competition. Another thing, you have to always get the job, in case you don't get job somehow, you will not get income that time.

When you work in freelance marketplace, there is rating system. If you cannot complete the job or submit the job in time, and your client gets mad at you, she/he can give you bad rating. And that will affects your overall rating pretty bad. You are at the mercy of the marketplace where you work there. If your account gets suspended or banned, your reputation and profile of that market place is gone forever. Then you have to start again from the beginning. Some freelancers start working outside of marketplace and they have their own website. In this way, they reduce the risk.

So being a freelancer and making a living is not easy as it seems. If you love it, you should do. But before making the final decision, you should know it very well.

Most of time freelancers move from freelancing and become an entrepreneur. That's great. You have to know what you really want to do in life. And that will guide you to move forward.