Whether you’re a writer or just someone who makes vector packs for a living, being a freelancer is a tough job. It’s definitely harder to work freelance than in a company. When you work in a company, you work for someone else, and it’s not your job to worry about getting clients or dealing with legal details – it’s that persons’ who you’re working for. When you work freelance, not only do you not get a steady paycheck every month, but you have to start finding clients, you have to start dealing with those clients personally .

British award-winning writer Neil Gaiman once famously commented that, if you’re a freelancer and you’re successful at what you’re doing, the whole universe conspires to stop you from doing that thing, exactly because you’re successful, and that he once realized he had become someone who professionally answered emails and who wrote as a hobby. So the next day he answered fewer emails and wrote more.