More and more people are taking freelance over full-time employment, not because they have to, but because they want to. “70 percent of freelancers surveyed are happier working independently than when they were full-time employees,” according to a report due out this week from Elance. Check out the gist, with bar graphs and pie charts, on gigaom.
David Page
David is the Founding Editor of BETA, Matador's new print magazine. His guidebook to Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada and Death Valley earned him a 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, and was named "Best Guidebook of 2008" by the Outdoor Writers Association of California. He has written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men's Journal and The New York Times. He lives on the edge of one of the largest calderas on earth, in Mammoth Lakes, California, with his wife, his two boys, and an illegal migrant canine avatar of the Aztec god Xolotl.
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