Freelancing is amazing because it forces you to budget wisely, to be smart with your time, and to learn to negotiate. But it sucks because you can get burned ba

Freelancing is amazing because it forces you to budget wisely, to be smart with your time, and to learn to negotiate. But it sucks because you can get burned badly. I've been unpaid twice, once for a website and once for a blackberry app. But if you hit a hot streak and you can squirrel some money away, you can make a good living and mainly in your own terms.