Someone with proper full-time job can't call himself a freelance? Two concepts are mutually exclusive?

Question

Just out of curiosity..if someone has a proper full-time job with reasonably good pay chooses to part-time or go freelance in his or her spare time as an interprerter, ghost writer, consultant, voice-over expert, lecturer etc..Can you call him or her a freelance any more? Because by definition if someone goes freelance, it sort of indicates that he or she doesn't have a full-time job. The two concepts are mutually exclusive and contradictory that if you are one..you can't be the other??

But these days things are getting flexible when it comes how to people choose to work..so people can be a full-time employee and a freelance at the same time?

It's not encouraged for employees to part-time by most employers, right? They think employee's productivity and motivation will inevitably suffer?

Answer 1

You can still say you freelance if you also have a proper, full-time job. I don't see why you can't do both. Freelancing is a type of work and it doesn't exclude you from doing other kinds of work. Some people can be freelance writers, but because it pays intermittently, also have to hold down a full or part-time job. Freelancing just means you're not permanently employed in that particular field.

Answer 2

You can work full time, for one company, and still be a freelancer. There are many fields where this is common, graphic design is one of those fields, where you are highered for full time work but paid as a freelancer, meaning no taxes are taken out of your pay, the company gets a bigger tax write off and the freelancer paying their own taxes also gets additional write offs that a regular full time employee would not. You are basically considered a contractor by the employer. The most common type of freelancer however has multiple clients working multiple jobs.

Answer 3

Sure you can be freelance with a full time job, or part time job. It is irrelevant. Freelance does not mean one doesn't have another job or does it have any relation to other 'professional' occupation.



Employers are actually encouraged with Obamacare and his administration in general to have less ful time employee's and more part time to cut costs.



As for an employer to look negatively on a person who chooses to use their 'spare' time to freelance (or DBA) another service -- well, that is subjective to each employer. If the employee's productivity doesn't lower or other such negative factors come in play then no employer is going to care one way or another.



Your time off from your part or full time job is yours, and yours alone -- you can choose to freelance or relax.



It would only contradict if the freelance work is the same work as is done for the full time employer -- and such freelance work interfered with the bottom line or clients of the company the person worked for.



IE: You worked for a web design company full time, and freelanced the same work on the side for clients that would otherwise be fulfilled by the company you work full time for.

Answer 4

Freelance in such cases means freelance writer.



You can work full time in another field, yet still be a freelance writer.



You can even have a full time writing job and still pick up money as a freelancer.



About the only people I laugh at is people who call themselves freelancers, who don't actually get paid.





Most employers only care about what you do in your free time, if you're paid by salary, even then writing on the side is no different than Civil War reenactment, chronic masturbation, or drinking heavily.

Answer 5

You may have a full-time job and be a freelancer. Some bosses don’t like “moonlighting,” but many do it. I did. It’s how I got out of the full-time gig and into my own thing.

Answer 6

Of course you can. You just need to change the way you think. You can work for someone else. You can work for yourself. Tomorrow I start a full time job (fingers crossed) yet this Friday I'll still work for myself as a paid actor in an improv murder mystery theatre troupe. I am not "employed" by them, I am my own business entity.