After looking for several years for my dream job. I cross my path with the world of freelancing. Work from home, unlimited income, flexible timing, you are your own boss, autonomy over working hours, and choosing your own clients etc. All sounds heaven for work life. But freelancing is a deception. All that they say is not true. Freelancing is a stress machine. You become a slave of your own self. Sleepless nights, unknown clients, uncertainty if you are not working through a freelancing platform, no steady income, and higher expectations of all, greed for more and more work, and above all difficult to explain to people what do I do for a living. It turned out to be more stressful for me. Work stress increases as I tried to manage my website and freelancing platforms at once. At first, it all seems so wow but later it generates a conflict of interest and now I am always confusing whether to spend time on freelancing platform or to work on my own website. It does not only destroy your mental health or add considerable mental distress. But also a lot of physical health issues also emerge with freelancing. Your eyes are stressed, the brain is heavy and you gain a lot of weight.
Freelancing and stress