Perhaps you are thinking about becoming a home-based professional. That is a wonderful and exciting thing. You may be wondering whether the job skills that you have are things that employers are hiring home-based workers to do. According to Elance, a website where freelance workers can search for and bid on freelance jobs, there are over a hundred skills that people are hiring freelancers for. This means that if you take a good look at your resume, you will find that you can do one of these hundred things if not more than one.
What are these skills? Well, if you are a programmer of any kind, you can probably freelance. Clients are looking for programmers for Word Press, Joomla!, PHP, HTML, iPhone, Android, and iPad, among other things. The visual creativity of illustrators, logo designers, animators, cartoonists, video producers, and art directors are all in demand. If you have a way with words, clients are hiring writers of all kinds. Whether your preferred medium is articles, blog posts, web content, business writing, creative writing, ghostwriting, editing, or ebooks, there are jobs out there waiting for you.
The list goes on with skills like advertising, Photoshop data entry, transcription, translation, research, ecommerce, social media, and many, many, others. I find that the sheer number of categories in which freelancers can find work is inspiring because it makes freelancing accessible to many, many people. Do you have skills that are on this list? Did you know that your skills are in demand in the freelance hiring marketplace? Freelancing is great because you can do as little or as much as you want. It can serve as a second job to bring in extra income, a way to make a little extra doing something you love, or even as a full time job if that is what you want it to be.
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