At my University’s orientation, I mentioned to a professor counselling me on my course selection that I wanted to be a freelance writer. Taken aback, he mentioned that he had been a freelance writer for a couple of years, writing for a local paper where he made a less-than-luxurious amount of money (I’d prefer to leave it undisclosed, but you probably get the idea).

Naturally, this was a bit disheartening, and I began reconsidering a lot of my options. At the peak of my disappointment with freelancing, I’d even considered switching to major in Business and out of the Media Information Technoculture course that I’m currently enrolled in. In fact, I took the month of July to study Calculus and Vectors to prepare me for a possible switch to Business.

Here was my rationale: although money wasn’t the most important factor in a line of work, it was definitely a major consideration for me. The side of me that loves money is a realist — it knew that the chances of me making money (I’m talking big money) on writing alone were slim to none. And it was convincing me that the feast-or-famine cycle was the least appealing quality of the job.

But lately, I’d been doing a lot of reading — I’d actually stumbled the majority of it accidentally. Through a lot of clickthroughs from various websites and blogs, I ended up at this article: http://www.skelliewag.org/30-days-to-become-a-freelancer-961.htm

I was deeply impressed. Although this wasn’t my first time reading Skellie’s work, I had never seen freelancing being broken down like that before. And the thing is, freelancing could be given a try while I was a full-time student (it was either on this article or another that mentioned freelancing should be started at 1-2 hours a night while maintaing a full-time job — my full-time job is studying). With my love for writing rekindled by this hope, I’d decided to go all-out in August and try to become a freelancer by the beginning of September.

No doubt, this part is a lot easier, because I’m on Summer break and have the whole day to work on freelancing. I’m aspiring to be a freelance writer, but I do want to try and get some other knowledge in; finances and employment opportunites, as well as online income, are piquing my interest right now.

Why am I saying all this? This is just an introduction into the world of freelancing, which I consider to be a source of making some money; secondly, I plan to study and personally undergo this 30 days towards being a freelancer, and keeping myself accountable with this blog. Hopefully, my documented journey will be able to help future aspiring freelancers.