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Freelancing offers a whole new world of opportunities. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a programmer, game developer, graphic designer, photographer, writer, blogger, editor, financial consultant, or a makeup artist – if your profession is not inseparable from a company, you can find your own gigs and make money on the go.
It takes a lot of courage to leave an office job and become a freelancer. However, you will gain priceless freedom that will open the doors for many challenges.
If you’re wondering whether or not you should enter the world of freelancing, the following 7 reasons will convince you to take a chance.
You already have what it takes. If you have a skill that’s suitable for a freelancing career, then you won’t have to learn anything new. You’ll just upgrade the knowledge you already have. You can really do whatever you love. There is no reason to underestimate your potential. You’ll always find someone willing to pay for your skills.
Before you launch yourself into the freelancing market, it’s important to analyze the supply and demand in the particular industry. If you realize there are enough opportunities to benefit from, your life will become much easier. You will do the work you like and you’ll get paid for it.
Freelancers don’t have bosses; they have clients. This is an equitable relationship based on fair collaboration. Don’t get this wrong. You will still answer to someone. However, it’s easier to be accountable for your own work in this scenario.
You won’t be dependent upon the opinion of a boss, but you’ll still have to do your best on every project you start working on. Remember that feedback is important when you’re working as a freelancer.
If you’re working on a freelancing platform like Upwork, Elance or Freelancer, your feedback will be easily visible on your profile so all potential clients will see it before hiring you. If, on the other hand, you decide to go become a hardcore freelancer with an independent website, you’ll still have to get good reviews to build your reputation.
This means that you’ll have to maintain your professionalism on a high level. However, you won’t have to tolerate a frustrated boss who doesn’t appreciate your efforts.
Freelancing is perfect for introverts. If you belong in this category of people, you’ll love the fact that you won’t have to have small talks with your colleagues and ask how their kids are doing even though you have zero interest in the answer.
You love hanging out with different people? You’ll still find joy in freelancing. Although you’ll work in a private space in your home or in a personal office, you’ll still have tons of time to see everyone after working hours.
Freelancing is a very flexible career, so you can make short coffee breaks and organize your time however you want. You don’t have to isolate yourself from society unless that’s exactly what you aim for.
This is often the first advantage that comes to mind when you think of freelancing: you can work at any time of the day or night as long as you meet the deadline. Of course, you will have deadlines. Your client will give you a particular timeframe in which you’ll handle the project, but the way you organize your time will be up to you.
There are no office hours in this career. You can combine freelance work with your main office job.
Moreover, it is perfect for students who can’t work 8 hours a day.
You can spend a day with your friends and cover the work overnight. You can go through a working binge for a week and make enough money to spend the rest of the month travelling and relaxing. You can book a ticket to a destination you always wanted to visit and work from there.
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Flexibility is a great advantage when you know how to organize your time.
Are you a talented, creative individual who choked under the pressuring limits of conventional education? It’s time to set yourself free into the freelancing market. Everyone appreciates creativity in this industry, so you’ll finally get a chance to explore your ideas and share them with the world.
An app developer will certainly work under a client’s instructions, but he will still have tons of space to infuse some of his personality into the project. If he has a completely unique idea for an app, he can develop it and offer it to a client (or partner with somebody and market it). A freelance writer can work on his own projects in free time, and publish them on a blog that can get really profitable over time.
If you want to try something new and you know your idea is worth developing, then a freelancing career is the right choice for you.
You don’t need to set up a business to become a freelancer. Many people are afraid to try freelancing because they don’t know how to start. The best thing about this industry is that it’s always open to newbies. All you need to do is join a freelancing platform, start a website, or create a professional Facebook profile where you’ll promote your services.
The beginnings won’t be easy. If you don’t have a portfolio with projects you’ve already completed, potential clients will hesitate to hire you. However, you can always feature samples of your work. It’s important to stay persistent; the first opportunity will come up sooner or later. When you do a good job and you get positive feedback, you’ll enter the freelancing market with the speed of light.
Don’t forget though that even if you don’t own a business, you still need to report your income to authorities.
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Many people have great potential to become freelancers although they are unhappy with the suffocating office jobs. They remain inactive because they are have the impression that the freelancing market offers no security.
First of all, let’s get one thing out of the way. No office job is absolutely safe! What happens when a company goes out of business? People are left in despair!
With freelancing, on the other hand, you can never get fired. If things don’t work out with a particular client, you can always proceed to the next project. Contract termination is not catastrophic when the industry offers tons of new opportunities you can benefit from.
Are you ready to take a huge step into the unknown? The freelancing market is open for people with different skills and goals; all you need to do is explore your opportunities, develop a plan and put yourself out there.
The good thing is that you don’t have to leave your job to make your first freelancing attempts. Find a client, start working on a project and see how it goes. You might convince yourself to leave that boring job after the first payment you receive.
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Stockholm-based firm Kjellander + Sjöberg (K+S) won the Swedish division of the Nordic Built Cities Challenge 2016 with their vision to transform Sege Park, Malmö into a socially sustainable residential hub. Their project “It Takes a Block” uses climate-smart and economically varied housing models to test architecture’s capability to foster sustainable living. The proposal was developed in association with students from Lund University and Danish landscape architecture firms BOGL and Sted.
The design responds to the critical need for urban density in Swedish cities by providing 800 compact apartment units across the 40,000 square meter site. Despite the high density and block arrangement, the scheme contains a multitude of shared spaces and open, unprogrammed communal zones. These areas are intended to act as points of shared knowledge and resources, consolidating waste and fostering a greater sense of community interaction within the complex.Â
The proposal intertwines typologically variant apartment types with public program, with the intention of creating “rich socioeconomic variation.” Careful consideration of the existing environment will further this variation by creating conscious links to integrate the new development into its surroundings. The new building stock is proposed to “organically grow” from the existing 1930s buildings and parklands, creating a diverse new urban neighbourhood.
“The starting point of the design has been the fact that the long-term sustainability is ensured by providing opportunities for residents to engage and interact with their local environment,” K+S said of their design.
K+S are currently engaged in several multi-residential projects across Sweden, including a new civic block in Kiruna, which applies similar approaches to climatic control and community-centric planning. The practice’s interest in sustainability, visible across their portfolio, has been further explored at this year’s Venice Biennale.
The overall winner of the Nordic Built Cities Challenge will be announced in November. K+S are one of six winners vying for the top honor, with the other projects dotted throughout the Nordic countries, in sites such as Trygve Lies plass in Oslo, Norway; Karsnes harbour in Kopavogur, Iceland; and Hans Tavsens Park and Korsgade in Copenhagen, Denmark.Â
Learn more about the Nordic Built Cities competition, here.
News Via Kjellander + Sjöberg.
Short History
The Ravelijn “Op den Zoom” is a fort-island of the city of Bergen op Zoom in The Netherlands which is made in the beginning of the 18th century by Menno van Coehoorn, a famous fort builder. This is the only “ravelijn” of him still present. The island sits just outside of the former center of the city. At the end of the 19th century the fortress lost its defensive function. Nowadays the island-fort is mainly used for small public and private events.
The assignment
The assignment was to make a kiosk with public toilets and an information point on the Ravelijn
Concept
The fort is made of a brick foundation with earth walls on top. The earth walls surround the fort on all sides. But the wall at the side of the city is not an original one. In times of war this one was not necessary, because there was no attack expected from that side. We used exact that not historic earth wall to make the kiosk in it. It sits on the side and it’ s incorporated in the fort. We made 2 entrances, one for each toilet. The information point is accessible through those entrances.
In the information point there is a glass roof to provide daylight. There is a big horizontal, gas-spring operated hatch at the front.
Material
The kiosk is made entirely out of Accoya
Sig Nordal 