Many of the modern day professionals end up being self employed freelancers while doing work for several employers. Being a free lancer gives a certain kind of freedom, and many have in their minds especially the free working hours, when the freelancer is not bind to a working hours for example of a big company. Reality then again can be quite different. When you are an employee you do your work, go home and once a month an always same sized salary appears on your account. Someone else is doing all the administrative work for you and only thing you need to do is carry out your work as well as you can.
Self employed people have to be a bit more than this to get the always varying monthly salary on their accounts. Being a good professional and doing your work best you can isn´t enough. If a regular employee needs to do an average 8 hour working day to pay her monthly bills, self employed can add to this several hours of administrative work among the tax papers, accounting, salary payments, all kinds of announcements to officials and so on. Added to this, and especially in the beginning of the freelancer career, is the marketing of the freelancer´s professionalism, finding customers to pay the monthly salary. Free working hours are just a dream in the reality of a self employed professional if she doesn't have any help from outside.
It is possible to reduce the work load and for example the financial administration (in Finnish=taloushallinto)with the help of technology and outsourced services, such as accounting softwares and accounting companies. Even if the business is really small, meaning that the company´s sales are not numerous, many services are still in the reach of a freelancer and can save the time as well so that the dream of a free working hours instead of an endless working hours can actually be true.
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