Preface
With the outbreak of the new coronavirus in 2020-21, many companies have begun to let their employees take unpaid leave due to funding problems, and even some catering and tourism industries have layoffs on a large scale. Some people lost their jobs overnight.
Some companies have also begun to use long-distance work from home to allow employees to use the Internet to work at home, and gradually make people value the convenience of being able to work at home, away from the stereotype that people think that working at home is a scam in the past. impression.
As a long-distance freelance worker, I have some insights about this nature of work, so I compiled this complete guide to share with you.
Of course, in addition to mental skills, it will also integrate all kinds of work that can be done at home, so that people who also want to work at home can have a deeper understanding.
When I was very young, my family always told me, "I study hard now, and then I can find a good job with a stable salary when I go out."
But this passage has always puzzled me and made me think constantly:
So these "beliefs" were deeply buried in my heart, and I was thinking about the whole growth process: "How do I achieve the life I want?"
In this way, I started working hard to find ways and channels from high school, and spent a lot of time trying various ways to make money from a distance. Almost all kinds of ways to make money online have been tried.
Later, I heard a new term by chance: "freelancer". Right now, I felt like seeing the dawn of my life, and I immediately devoted a lot of time to research.
At that time I got two main points for working remotely:
Maybe not everyone is as rebellious as me(?), but there must be many people who want to try to see if they can work from home.
At this time, a question will appear: "Then should I work full-time from home, or should I use part-time get off work or vacation time to earn extra money?"
I suggest that you can start working part-time. If the income of part-time job can be higher than the national average income of employees, you can consider quitting the job and do it full-time.
However, there is no standard value. You still have to judge according to your own real situation. Some people think that it is safe to earn several times higher than the average income, and some people think that what they earn every month is enough to support themselves.
You can use the salary distribution system to see where your income falls. However, this system can only be calculated based on the annual salary at present, and it may need to be converted slightly.
I think being able to have 100% control of my time should be the biggest advantage of working from home, and it is also the part that makes me most impressed.
Compared with the company’s nine-to-five system, you are always required to do something when you don’t want to do something; working at home is more able to arrange to do the right thing at the right time according to your personality and habits .
For example, if I understand that my high concentration time is at night, then I can use the daytime to rest, or do some lighter things, and then concentrate on completing what I should do at night. This is relatively useful for myself The efficient way.
I also feel very impressed about this. Working from home really doesn't cost much! ! !
Generally, when people go to work in the company, the monthly transportation expenses are a big expense, not to mention the expenses for various out-of-home meals or colleague gatherings.
Teleworkers may only need the money for a cup of coffee a day to be able to stay in the coffee shop for a day to complete the work they should do; if they work from home, let alone, it makes no sense to spend what money XD, For the three meals, I will buy the ingredients first. I can usually eat several meals by cooking it myself. In this era when everything is expensive, it saves a lot of outside food expenses.
This is also my original intention to become a freelancer (Freelancer), because I don't like being controlled by others, just a disobedient child(?)
Whether in major related organizations or among friends, I can often hear complaints about supervisors or bosses. I believe anyone who has been in the company should be very impressed.
While working from home is virtually devoid of pressure from the boss, because "the boss," This man does not exist, more generally the pressure will come from the main case or to their own goal, so be advantages and disadvantages.
There is a simple sentence, but quite reasonable: "If you don't want to be supervised by others, you have to take care of yourself."
Newbies who are just starting to work at home may encounter problems of poor efficiency. The following are a few points I have compiled based on my own experience. If I grasp it, my efficiency can definitely be greatly improved
Everyone who works from home needs to have a clear goal, because with a clear goal, he will have the motivation to achieve it.
This goal can be:
As far as I am concerned, I make a list every year. This list is the goal to be achieved this year; and every month I allocate what I should accomplish this month; and finally I allocate it to my daily progress.
For freelancers, it is absolutely necessary to set goals, otherwise life will really be like a walking dead, and there will be a lack of "sense of accomplishment", and will become bored after a long period of time, resulting in no motivation to give up in the end.
The so-called goal is to even feel that you can't achieve it. That's called a "goal", otherwise it's just a "scheduling" in your comfort zone.
In my opinion, whether you achieve your goals is the next thing, but whether you "grow" during this process:
So, set yourself a goal that you can't achieve by yourself, and then do your best to accomplish it!
If you want to increase work efficiency, you must separate your working environment from your living environment.
The fastest way is of course to go outside, the library, the coffee shop... etc. But if you want to work from home, you must also put yourself in a new environment.
It is most taboo to work in a place where you usually rest and sleep. First, apart from being easily distracted, it is also very easy to make it difficult for you to enter work.
Although I can usually do things in my room, I still carry my laptop to work in the study. When I walk from my room to the study, it will be like taking a car to work. There is a clear division. Life and work are truly separated from each other.
I just need to let my body understand: "The study is my office. I am here to concentrate on work; and leaving here is off work time. Don't think about work anymore."
In fact, it is to echo the previous point. As a freelancer, you will not have a clear time for commuting, so you must set a clear "working time" for yourself.
Of course, this time can be arranged according to yourself, and you don't have to follow the ordinary people's commuting time.
But it is necessary to make a clear plan, which may be:
Set everything up, although it seems very boring, every day is a fixed itinerary, but in the long run, this will really be a super efficient time plan and will help you get closer to your goals.
You don’t have more time to work at home, you just have more control over your time.
Thankyou
Anuj
