The freelancer is the job archetype for the new millennium. Much like artists were to the Renaissance and engineers to the mechanical revolution, the tech (and more recently, the mobile) revolution rely on freelancers of various skills to propel itself forward.<\/p>\n
Apple and Microsoft have full-time employees like engineers, marketers, and other skillful people in different fields.<\/p>\n
Still, when we are talking about the Internet and tech industry, on the whole, most of its innovation, content, and coding is done by passionate freelancers.<\/strong><\/p>\n We see the same thing with mobile. Most app companies are started by entrepreneurs who worked as freelancers to get their start. <\/strong>Freelancing jobs could be called \u201cpersonal incubators\u201d for young entrepreneurs, who are lacking in minimal capital to start a small business.<\/p>\n And when those businesses are finally financed, they look towards outsourcing as much as possible to skip on health care obligations, benefits, and office space.<\/p>\n