You started your working life being told that you have to get a degree and a job with a pay set by the company. The truth is, you could be a freelancer or independent worker in 2023, and your earning potential would be unlimited.

I started working when I was ten years old. I worked at restaurants, gas stations, and fast food chains. I never enjoyed that work, but I was able to pay my way through college with the money I made.<br><br>I took what I learned during my degree in Information Technology and got a job as an IT consultant in 2007. I was earning $65,000 a year and I thought I was rich. <br><br>In 2010, I left my job started freelancing full time. I could have continued working the same IT consulting job that I had been doing for years. That same job was available to me as a freelancer, but I decided to do something else. I decided to do everything that I had learned in my degree and my eight years of working in the IT industry. I worked as a web developer, I worked as a technical recruiter, and I even worked as a software developer. I even taught IT courses at the local university. <br><br>I did this for the first three years of my freelance career and I was making between $80,000 and $100,000 per year. It was a great feeling to have control over my income and to be able to do whatever I wanted for work. <br><br>After that, I decided to go in a totally different direction. I knew that I had the skills to do whatever I wanted and I wanted to do something that would produce passive income. <br><br>In 2014, I started my first company. I had a very clear idea of the company that I wanted to start. I wanted to start a company that would produce passive income. I wanted to be able to step back and know that I could still get paid. After a lot of research, I decided to start a greeting card company. I started a company that would produce greeting cards for entrepreneurs. <br><br>Starting a company that produced physical products was not easy, but I was able to do it. I was able to do it by outsourcing. I outsourced the production of the raw materials, the manufacturing of the cards, the printing of the cards, the packaging, the shipping and the customer service. I was able to hire a virtual assistant to do all the work of the business and I was able to step back. <br><br>Today, the company is producing passive income. It is producing $250,000 per year and I am able to continue doing other freelance work and running other businesses. <br><br>This is a reality that is available to you. You can have unlimited earning potential if you choose to be a freelancer or independent worker.