Why freelancing is the right path for progress. As a freelancer working in Illustration over the past 7 years, I feel I reached a point where I'm able to pull off a good many of thoughts about Illustration as a career in different environments. After working for companies for a period of time, I decided to make a move and tried to see where working exclusively as an online remote worker would take me. At that time, I started to become aware that online work was a fast growing market, and I recognized a couple of the advantages in working in that environment. The only thing that made me nervous about the decision was the fact that I was following mainly my instincts, and I had no other way of finding out if those instincts were a given, other than diving into uncertainty. Sure that it wasn't easy, and during the first year or two after leaving the safe check at the end of the month, I was still wondering if that was really the right move, th