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I feel similar as you do. I haven't taken the steps to go freelance route yet.

My biggest issues as an employee are lack of autonomy to work on my own hours, projects, technology, teammates etc. As freelancer, you may be able to choose your clients, fire them if they are not a good fit etc. Sure you may have to suck up and work with bad clients once in a while. But the idea of autonomy is very alluring to me.

As devs, we usually do have a lot of flexibility but sometimes you just want to take a few weeks off, you cannot do that as an employee. We have deliverable at end of this month and my boss is already talking about next deliverable. If we do freelancing right, after a big project, we would take a week or so off.

And you can start off as freelancer but overtime you can grow and create a consulting firm. I read this book, Developer's Hegemony, it had a lot of good ideas about how to go about doing this.

Anyways my plan is to freelance on the side for a while before quitting the job.