> If your contract ever falls through you need instant back-up, not after the 3 months or so that it will take to get your order pipeline filled. Is this not t

> If your contract ever falls through you need instant back-up, not after the 3 months or so that it will take to get your order pipeline filled. Is this not the case with smaller projects too, though? I always tend to look for a new project towards the end of the last one, and that has worked out so far. > You need several customers in parallel to be stable as a freelancer, not one big one. I actually found the opposite: trying to maintain 2 projects at the same time was a nightmare.