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Is Telecommute Work Something You Can Live On Comfortably
There are two kinds of telecommute work. One, you are still part of a company’s payroll except you work off-office premises; or two, you work as a freelancer with no fixed salary to count on.
As a telecommuter associated with one office, the pay is pretty standard, and may not always based on a per output basis. This means you have a specific set-up with the main difference being that you are not required to report to the office daily. You still get benefits and a regular pay-check. With this kind of arrangement, you can certainly survive and not have to get a second job. However, chances for promotion may not be as good someone who works full time in the office because as they say, “seeing is believing,” and the importance of being at the right place at the right time.
As a freelancer, telecommute means working for different clients, so income may not be as steady, but it can be much more than a salary or the minimum wage. This is because you have more control over your work. This control is mainly attributed to the fact that you decide which jobs to apply for and which to accept.
Initially, you cannot be picky over the jobs you apply for because you need to build up your portfolio. Just like in the corporate world, experience is given high priority, and if you have none, then you get considered for low paying jobs or “beginners accepted” kind of work. It’s like entry-level for telecommuting work if you want to compare to corporate America.
As such, you will probably not be able to sustain a comfortable lifestyle solely on money earned from this kind of work, not yet anyway. One way to avoid this kind of hard, penny-pinching scenario is to have a period of overlapping. You can either hold down a full time job and a telecommute contract, or work part time, one with a regular pay check, and the other as the freelancer you want to be.
Once you establish yourself as a reliable accountant, graphic artist, software or website developer, or writer then you will be considered by employers for higher paying jobs. You might even begin to get cold calls from employers looking for reliable experts in specific fields. When this starts to happen, then you can take a chance and shift to more
telecommuting jobs and leave the corporate world altogether.
At this point, you have reached one of the pinnacles of telecommuting, and can safely start to depend on telecommute work as your sole source of income.
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