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Freelance
Work:
The Changing Face Of Employment
By:
M6.Net Web Hosting
No more working for the same company for fifty years. Freelance
work is becoming more and more
prominent. On-line you can find
work or someone to do a job.
Check out
www.guru.com
The world sure is changing, and
if you look at job employment
you will see what I mean. Let's
just go back to our
grandparent's generation, even
though I'm sure if we went back
further we would see very
different structures of work in
the tribal periods of our
history. Our grandparents
usually found a skill, and then
used that one skill to work for
their whole career. An example
is my grandfather who was a
salesman for the same suit
company for 44 years. There is
nothing wrong with this. His job
was secure; he knew there would
be a superannuating fund when he
retired, and that there would
always be food on the table for
his family. These days in the
21st century things have
changed, and they are still
changing rapidly as we speak.
Nowadays it isn't strange for a
person to have around five
completely different career
paths in their lifetime. You
might think that job security is
much lower, but there are new
types of jobs emerging everyday
with the advent of modern
technology. Older people can go
back to schools and be educated
in totally new areas that are
greatly desired in society. One
of the greatest changes in
recent times is the fact that a
lot of people are now working
for themselves as freelancers
from home. Society is still
getting all the necessary work
done, but the structures in
which individuals pursue their
dreams and goals in their areas
of interest have changed
completely. If you are working
at home for your own business,
you sure don't have the old
hierarchy of bosses watching
over your every move, judging
your worth, and threatening you
with dismissal.
People are now self-motivated as
they know that if they don't get
out there and share their skills
and attributes with society,
they simply might be forgotten.
There is a new way of acquiring
work these days that is so very
different than the days of
perusing the job-ads in the
newspaper or going door-to-door
asking for work. Surprise,
surprise, its on the Internet!
There are now on-line
marketplaces for both employers
to offer work and for potential
freelance employees to show
their portfolios. There are
many, but an excellent example
of one of these sites is
www.guru.com. On Guru.com
once you have registered your
portfolio for free, you can then
bid for jobs that prospective
employers have advertised. On
the other hand, if you are an
employer, you can go to the
category of work you need done
(E.g.: Creative Writing) and
search through a list of
professionals that you can then
contact to do the job.
These professionals exhibit the
amount that they charge per
hour, how much they have already
earned through the site and a
portfolio of examples of their
work. They are then given a
rating that has been compiled by
the employers who have used
their services. It is quite
unbelievable; they've got people
and job types from a multitude
of different areas, just about
any type of freelance work you
can imagine: E.g. Website
design, marketing, writing,
graphic design, legal,
engineering, photography,
finance-the list is quite
extensive.
So you see, "the times they are
a-changin'" my friends. Imagine
if you were frozen in time one
hundred years ago and then
thawed out today. All the basic
human beliefs and emotions would
be the same, but how would the
world look to you? We've got to
go with the flow and not get
lost in the structures of old.
What's your goal? Get on the
Web!
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