This post has been submitted by Ritu from www.worknplay.net.

“How do you define the American Dream? Is it a nice beautiful house, a family, money enough to live comfortably, working under somebody, getting paid less than what you are worth, being able to retire at 70 and finally being able to pay off your mortgage at 80? What exactly is the American Dream?”

The above sentence might have thrown you off a little bit as it started out on a positive end and ended on a negative. The point being that American culture and society has suppressed their dreams to corporate demands and given their pool of talent into the hands of someone else. This is why I say freelancing is the road to American Dream.

You might say, “Well, I still work while freelancing, it’s not like I get to sit and make money?” The fact that you work for yourself and are building your reputation or company alone is half the battle won. Freelancing allows you to offer your talent to sources that would otherwise be reserved for the one you work for. I know, you have started thinking this guy is crazy. Think about it, if you were a writer for New York Times (not just a contributor, a full time writer), would you be able to write for Boston Herald? Heck No! Why? Because your talent is sucked in by the company to use for their benefit, sure you get paid a little (well thousands or whatever, still little to what the company makes utilizing your skills) but what if you were a freelance writer, writing for both New York Times and Boston Herald? Ding, ding, ding… exactly, there is money to be made doing freelancing and it’s definitely an American dream.

So what if you don’t think your talent has a market in freelancing world. You create that market. It’s never too late, heck people get married when they are 80 and you are worried in your 40’s. Start out, its always early enough when you put it in action.

By the way, since I had asked the question on what exactly the American Dream is, I guess I owe an answer to it as well, from my perspective of course…

I define the American dream as being my own boss, working on my schedule and not someone else’s, being able to go to baseball games and watch the kids when wife goes out shopping with her friends, paying my mortgage, so I am not worried on my deathbed as to how to tell my kids that I am giving them the mortgage in my will, getting paid for what I am worth, if I am worth only a dollar I would rather get that dollar for myself then to work for a company and have them take half of it. American Dream is about making your own dream come true while looking at the reality with eyes wide open. And the reality being, there is a way freelancing can achieve all these, just put your mind into it.

Get back to me when you have lived your American dream. As for me I haven’t been able to live my dream yet but the way it’s going, next year I will definitely be staying home and working my own hours and starting a journey to live the American Dream.

Ritu
www.worknplay.net

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