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You Can Find Freelance Work in Almost any Field

by Michelle Yanik

A freelancer is an independent contractor. Have you been looking for freelance employment? Are you thinking you have the skills and discipline to work independently? With a computer, high speed internet, phone, fax and skills you can work from home in almost any field with companies in almost any country.

Companies benefit by working with freelancers or contractors because they are not responsible for employment/tax costs. Make sure your home environment fits with the type of work you want to do. If you plan to do phone work, you can't have sounds of small children or dogs barking in your background. Companies still want their home workers to appear to be working in the companies' offices.

Writing/Editing/Proofreading

If you're hoping to find job listings for writers or freelance photography jobs there are opportunities online. In previous times freelance writers and photographers contacted magazine and book publishers with samples sent via the mail. Now, you can search the web and find organizations hiring freelancers of all sorts. Freelance writing, editing and proofreading are valuable services to many businesses.

Companies can't afford to distribute documents and marketing materials that contain errors. An extra pair of eyes help to find errors that could be costly or embarrassing. They need accurate and professional workers to create and polish written materials. There is a wide range of pay. Low paying jobs range from $10 per article to $200 per educational paper. High paying jobs range from $600 to $1,000 per article. Ghost writing a novel can get you thousands.

Web Developers

With technological advances telecommuting jobs became possible and prevalent. Freelance opportunities have moved beyond writing and photography. Other freelance employment areas to explore include jobs for web developers. Web developers usually offer HTML and programming services to create interactive or database driven websites.

Web developers are programmers and work with web based code like ASP, .NET, Cold Fusion, DHTML, Javascript, PHP, SQL and more. Web development and web maintenance are viable freelance jobs ideal for work at home. "Someone who wants to be a developer has to have a good eye, think like a programmer and have some graphic design capabilities.

If you only know HTML then you won't get very far and will find that you have a lot of limitations to the types of sites you can build", says Joey Costa, owner of The Tek in Cary, NC. In addition to HTML, you should know C programming, pearl, and good graphics programs like Photoshop.

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