Think like an entrepreneur

Today, there are approximately 1.1 billion freelancers in the world. This means that around 31.4% of the total workforce in the world are freelancers.

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1. Campfire 17: How to know, ask, and get paid what you’re worth as a freelancer?

2. The jobs of a product designer

3. Campfire 16: Should you be a generalist or a specialist designer?

4. How to know if you’re doing a great job as a product designer?

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6. Lessons from building design systems for multi-billion brands

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A year ago, I published my first piece of writing on Alex’s Camp. In it, I said that there are two ways to go through life:

1. You have the option of doing what everyone else is doing, or

2. Pursuing your interests

Becoming an entrepreneur was the only way I could actually feed my ambitions. Today, there are approximately 1.1 billion freelancers in the world. This means that around 31.4% of the total workforce in the world are freelancers.

It’s not surprising because many people are looking for ways to make more money.

An average freelancer earns approximately $39,000 per year. This is because most of those people treat freelancing as a side-hustle. However, there’s much more to freelancing when you choose it as a career. In reality, it’s a full-fledged business, and you have to think like an entrepreneur to be successful in it.

This is the only necessary mindset to take you on the success path. You start positioning yourself as a professional and earn a consistent income only when you approach your freelancing career as a business.

But this mindset isn’t developed immediately. You need to revisit how you look at freelancing and restructure how you operate your business.