My main issue with freelancing is the quality of the most of the gigs. Sure, you can land a gig which would allow you to use your most favorite trendy JS framew

My main issue with freelancing is the quality of the most of the gigs. Sure, you can land a gig which would allow you to use your most favorite trendy JS framework, but in the end you’d likely end up building some variation of a CRUD app. It’s extremely hard to land a project which would allow you to work in cutting-edge technological problems. An issue which I commonly see in these threads is the black-and-white antogonization of “working for the man” and being a “free man”. It’s almost like you are either a mindless 9-to-5 drone or you “escaped the system”, and working for yourself, even though you might be scraping bahts eating ramen in Chiang Mai.