If you believe everything that you see on social media (and first up, please, don’t!) being freelance is the best of both sides of the career coin – the potential for huge financial rewards and ultimate control over your working hours and location. 

 

If you’re unhappy at work, facing redundancy or feeling pressured to return to the daily commute and the office post-lockdown, it can feel very tempting to consider switching to full-time self-employment in the hope of a better lifestyle.

 

But is freelance life really the career utopia it’s being sold as?

 

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