Freelance: new job trend of Vietnamese youth

[The_White_Paradise]

Freelance appeared rather long time ago in the world. But it is pretty new for Vietnamese. In the recent years, it has become one of five attractive job for Vietnamese youth because it has some new advantages such as flexible time, high salary, independence and free. On the other hand, it also has some disadvantages.

I am looking for information about where and when freelance job appeared, its progress of development until now, etc. But I can't. If you know any website about it, books, and your experience, please share with me!

Do you think it is suitable for a primary research or presentation?
Thank you for your answer!

[Jamie (K)]

I don't think that freelance work is so new to Vietnam. Certainly thousands or millions of people were working freelance in Vietnam before the communist takeover. I know this, because I know people who were there. And under the communist government, you have people trading on the black market. They are also freelance workers.

I think that freelance work started at the same time as work itself. Prehistoric people worked freelance, and even a monkey looking for food is working freelance.

You left out what I think is the greatest advantage of freelance work: Since you don't have just one job, you can't lose your entire income if someone fires you. For an employee, getting fired destroys everything, but for a freelance worker, getting fired by a client just leaves you free to find another client.

[Torsten]

In addition to what Jamie has said I'd like to point out that working freelance is similar to being self-employed. A person who is self-employed often thinks about ways to create jobs for other people as well. If you are employed, you don't have much interest in improving the company you working for. If you are self-employed you constantly think about how you can provide better service to more people. So, somebody who works freelance is closer to becoming an entrepreneur than an employee.
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[The_White_Paradise]

- I would like to thank Jamie and Torsten. Your opinion helps me understand better about freelance.
- And I actually need find a research from some authors who studied any aspects of the freelance. This is the biggest difficulty for me. As you know, to begin one primary research report, the first step is to find out the potential topic and literature ( research from the other author studying this ).And I chose freelance but I need to narrow it when I have materials-literature. So, I am looking for researches related to freelance. These ones might come from book,journal articles, magazine articles, book sections, newspapers, report and electric source.

[Jamie (K)]

What you need to look for is magazines and articles on entrepreneurship.

Here is a good place to start:
http://entrepreneurs.about.com/od/becominganentrepreneur/Becoming_an_Entrepreneur.htm

This can lead you to other publications.

[Torsten]

Hi Jamie,

Did you know that about.com is owned by The New York Times Company? White P, as for more information on freelancing you might want to contact the Freelancers Union at freelancersunion.org.
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[Jamie (K)]

[Torsten]

[Jamie (K)]

[Torsten]

So, an icon or sign can be a piece of content too? If so, why would they claim to be offering "almost 2 million of original pieces of content"? You can cut any article into paragraphs and call each of them "a piece of content".
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[The_White_Paradise]

Once time, I would like to thank you for your enthusiasm.