6 Important Skills You Can Acquire With the Help of Freelancing

Freelancing – especially academic writing – is not only about using your writing skills in the best way possible. It can actually help you acquire some important skills to come in handy during your daily activities apart from your freelance occupation.

 1) Time-management – people all over the world pay for time-management classes, attend trainings and basically spend their precious time learning the mysterious science of controlling the time and being productive which, in the long run, can as well prove to be a mere waste of time :) But look – you are practicing your time-management skills every time you get the project done on time!

2) Research skills – it takes a great deal of talent and continuously obtained experience to narrow down your research and sift through megabytes and pages of information to find just what you need, and you can only get lucky enough to stumble upon the correct web/book page just so many times.

3) Self-control

4) Self-discipline

5) Motivation

- Speaking about the three aforementioned skills within the realms of freelancing, you cannot and will not finish the assigned project on time if you do not restrict yourself from some procrastionational callings while working, do not take the responsibility for the uninviting prospects of failing the plan the client counts on, and, last but not least, scrape the words for the sake of the word count, not being motivated and interested in the subject of research.

6) Communication skills – working on a freelance basis does require quite a bit of communication. Though performed mainly online, it still develops your communication skills, as it is much harder to put the information in the typed words not being able to rely on non-verbal communication techniques: body language, intonation, gestures, etc.

The entire writing process, as you see, consists of constant self-improvement. Seize the opportunity to become better and better with every page, project and day!