Nowadays many people choose to be self-employed, rather than to work for a company or organisation. Why might this be the case? What could be the disadvantages of being self-employed?

Nowadays, in the modern world where transnational corporations and government organisations dominated
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the labour market, more and more people are interested in being self-employed.
This
trend has its reasons, but there are
also
quite obvious drawbacks.
The
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last
two decades corporations have been growing all the
time
and today most of them have
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number of rules and different regulations, so people who
work
there feel their role in position in these companies smaller and smaller. Some of them lost
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of their value within a company.
Therefore
, they start to make a decision in the favour of
beeing
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being
self-employed, in order to get
this
feeling of freedom of
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what
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to do and how to
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.
Moreover
, in
todays
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world much easier to get freelance contracts,
due to
internet
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and different platforms for self-employed.
On the other hand
, I think,
this
ability to
work
for yourself has a lot of disadvantages, which might be hidden for the first
time
for those who consider
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this
way. First of all,
beeing
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being
self-employed obliged to spend a lot of
time
seaching
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searching
for new contracts and jobs to be done, thinking about effectiveness, tax returns, and accounting. Which, in turn, left them less
time
for doing their beloved
work
. Another drawback of
such
activity is a lack of ability to rely on counterparts or bosses
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some issues, or even to
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get
a piece of
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from them. All the decisions which should be made they should make in most cases by themselves.
To conclude
, the
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of
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freedom
to make decisions
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and how to do, and feeling the results and value of somebodies
work
, forces some employees to resign and become self-employed.
Although
it might be seen as a good decision,
this
trend
have
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disadvantages,
such
as
need
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the need
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to spend
time
searching for
job
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a job
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to be done, and
lack
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the lack
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of ability to rely on counterparts in some issues.
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  • self-employment
  • freelancing
  • entrepreneurship
  • autonomy
  • financial stability
  • work-life balance
  • financial insecurity
  • lack of support
  • resources
  • long working hours
  • uncertain income
  • job security
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