The best part about being a freelancer is the amount of flexibility you have in your career. When you work as a freelancer, you don’t have a regular office to report to, regular co-workers with whom to deal, or a boring, nine-to-five schedule. You have the liberation that many regular Joes only dream about.
One professional working freelance who knows this all too well is Natalia Vasquez, a videographer working from Peru. Though Peru is her home base these days, she used to freelance out of Boston as recently as last year. Besides being a freelance videographer, she also performs program analyses for Dimagi, a tech company.
Not having a regular office to report to came with its share of benefits, according to Vasquez. It particularly helped when she had to get around a brain fog to get a project moving. If she found herself feeling the effects of being cooped up too much in her home office, she simply wandered outside. When she was still living and working in Boston, the young freelancer would head to the area near Park Street Station and do concept sketching and think up different ideas at a fountain.
While Vasquez did most of her video editing from her home, she still had to venture outside in order to get a shot or to interview subjects for her footage. On the whole, though, being a videographer demands many hours a day, working in solitude with your equipment. Editing time is what accounts for this solitary confinement, and it typically involves the videographer, the computer, some headphones and the footage you just shot.
Freelancers in this profession can expect to work alone more than if they’re employed at a company. Having a sharp eye to spot even the littlest details is an absolute must for this line of work, which explains the long work hours with editing software. Prerequisites that can improve your career performance include being a people watcher. While some may be a tad uncomfortable with essentially being a voyeur—just watching and watching until the perfect scene or moment pops up in a piece of footage—it more than pays off when the end product is a beautiful work of art.
In Vasquez’s case, being a freelancer who has the luxury to move and work from city to city hasn’t hurt her career. In fact, according to her website, she’s managed to rack up a number of awards and snag some noteworthy clients. This is confirmation that you can have a rewarding career in freelance without being tied down to just one location.
Besides working from different locations in various continents, she’s also been educated in places as diverse as France (at the Paris Sorbonne) and New Zealand (at Victoria University). This richness in experience has helped Vasquez in her professional approach to videography.
As Vasquez knows all too well, it’s tempting to want to be excessively independent as a freelancer, but that’s not the best path to take. After all, one has to balance the autonomy of freelancing with the subjection to one’s clients that’s just part of the job. Fail to please your clients, and you fail to make it in the freelance world.
If, however, you do a consistently good job for clients, you can build up your portfolio with bigger and better projects. This in turn allows you to be choosier about whom you work with, as is evident in Vasquez’s situation. And that only means further opportunities to work from wherever you want!
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