[lhorie]

Freelance is all about your network quality. When I did part time freelance to bootstrap my career I too got my dose of difficult clients. Then years later, I did a switch from FTE to consulting, with a single high quality client, and it was basically just like any other job.

What I came to realize is that freelance is actually the lower end of the spectrum for consulting agencies. A client base for such work can range from mom-and-pop businesses to veterinary chains to big telcos, with stability and size of contracts being relatively proportional to how good your sales/business development pipeline is. Needless to say, it's all work up and down the spectrum, so finding that mythical work/life balance liberation is an akin to mastering an art form.