One question to ask yourself before embarking on a freelance career is “how well do you work on your own?”.

This can be looked on from two perspectives.

Firstly, when you’re left to your own devices, how likely are you to press on with work at hand. If you’re currently in an office environment or working with a group of people and you find you’re the only one in the room, are you likely to maintain you’re current work level or slack off a bit, starting browsing the web, maybe dip into an online game or two? Would you get distracted easily or look for a distraction?

Secondly, are you fond of your own company? While you might be able to press ahead with the work, are you too much of a people-person to be able to work on your own? Do you need the company of others around you, the human interaction?

Working on my own is something I adjusted to rather quickly and entering the world of work as a freelance anything (designer, writer, photographer), I think you’ve got to get used to working on your own a lot. It’s not a scare tactic to put you off working for yourself, but I’ve found over the last few years that you do spend a lot of time working by yourself.

Of course, if you do need the water-cooler morning chats, you could look at something like co-working or hot-desking in a local business centre.

When you’ve been a few days on a particular job and haven’t seen sunlight, you’ll want to hope you’re good company to yourself!

Me? My CD collection keeps me going.

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