The value of 1 dollar in the world of freelancing

Ravneet Kaur
3 min readSep 20, 2020

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Dream big, not rich!!

Growing up, I always had bigger dreams, the dreams which I didn’t monetised. In my tranistion period from childhood to adulthood I started seeing the value of everything I pursue in money. Let me learn this coding because the job market is growing in Python or let me learn graphic designing to earn some easy money. Nevertheless it is important to understand the job market before you pick up to learn something but in the process we forget that its us who builds that market. If you are the only person who has a particular skill but doesn’t fit in the job market, would you kill your passion or build audience around it?

I have always earned a decent amount through my jobs but I always had something to complain about. Ugh!! I hate this job, why can’t we earn more after spending straight 8 hours in office. It is only when I started blogging in the beginning of lock down, I realized something that job market never told. I realised along with your account balance you need to refuel your soul too. We take breaks from our work to recharge but what if the work becomes your recharging fuel? I didn’t researched the blogging platforms, I didn’t see how much money people are making through blogging, I didn’t look for clients to write for, the only thing I did was I started. I wrote about the topics I was good at starting from…

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Ravneet Kaur

Space Engineer 🌌🛰🚀👨‍🚀 STEM Activist 🔬♀️ A backpacker with a purpose. 🥾