To ask..If you 'Freelance" what exactly do you do??

[stilldazed]

This seems to be a real MN thing. I don't know anyone in real life who 'Freelances' but hear about it loads on MN.

What is it you Freelance in?....just asking.

Translation.

(Am a SAHM atm though.)

Proofreading.

Web development.

Typing crap on the internet forums.

Group fitness teaching

Buisness analyst, with a bit of web development.

thinking of moving into cruise liner safety systems

Translation.

Writer, editor, proofreader and voiceover.

Copy-editing and proofreading. Only one and a half days a week though, I have a normal job the other 3.5 days.

Translation and proofreading.

I would love a job doing some proofreading but when I looked into it you had to have 9238742934 years of experience and references etc.

How do you get to start from scratch? All I do is sit around all day waiting for the baby to be born because it's 6 miles to the nearest bus stop and a good 15 miles to the nearest town and I don't speak Swedish. I could be bringing in some money so we can move.

See what I mean, freelancers everywhere! 3 o'clock in the morning and 11 replies...i've never had this many replies to a post!

thanks everyone you're giving me ideas for a more family friendly existence!

I started by setting up a website, printing some cheap business cards and sending them around everywhere I could think of. Big companies, the council, the police, universities, the paper etc. i did a few jobs for free to build a little portfolio and some reduced rate to build a name and now I usually earn around £300 a month doing about ten hours work.

Maths tutor.
Started by putting small ads in local parish magazines (spend about £50 a year). Still do this but now about 50% is by personal recommendation.

Graphic artists/web designer.

Painter - stage sets, murals and um....paintings...

I moderate a website (not this one, obviously), for an hour a day, five days a week. I have also done a bit of copy editing and proofreading. I was a commissioning editor in-house, before DS arrived and I became a SAHM.

Writer. Lecturer. Freelance is another word for self-employed.

Copywriter.

Occasional translation (though the language I translate from is a bit rusty).
Proofreading (of student essays).

Translator, interpreter, proofreader.

Translator, project manager for large translation projects, copy-editor, proofreader.

There seems to be something of a pattern emerging here with all these translators and proofreaders.

I didn't know there were so many of us either!

Dietitian/Nutritionist, lecturer, nutrition writing.

Marketing. And you'll get a higher proportion here than you meet in RL because we are the ones without bosses peering over our shoulder to see what we are doing! Also working from home can be quite lonely, and online interaction is the only thing that keeps me (moderately) sane.

Wibble.