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What is a freelancing job and how different is it from online jobs?

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What is a freelancing job and how different is it from online jobs? You may find this topic “old news” if you are one of few million freelancers or online workers out there, but for the traditional office/corporate employees where the idea of work from home (WFH) was a complete stranger until early last year, then this article is definitely for you! This is also for you if you are one of many millions of aspiring freelance/online job aspirants. When did this online job start and who spearheaded the idea? In  1994, Jeff Taylor  founded  The Monster Board , it is a website that collects and posts “help wanted ads” from all the local newspapers across America, but it was not before 1996 have the site went public. Three years later, there was a merger between The Monster Board and Online Career Center, and the first online job search  Monster.com  was born and everything else was history. Let us go back to the digital memory lane of online jobs by detailing the progression of Freelancing s

Why bloggers and content creators multiply during the pandemic?

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 Why bloggers and content creators multiply during pandemic? What made people venture into blogging (like me) and content creation recently? Well, talking from my perspective, like most of the newcomers in the digital world, I came here to blog armed with nothing but courage and positive expectations that the journey I have started a couple of months ago will turn into something productive and helpful. During the middle of the pandemic, when people started feeling exhausted, worried, and hopeless about the whole covid scenario, millions of people around the world have taken comfort online. Some have already been freelancing years before the pandemic hit us, and being the pioneer for this career, they leveled up their game by providing training and guidance to the newcomers or “newbie” as they call it. New niche-based groups, new YouTube Channels, new FB Pages, and tons of new websites are being created every day, they are popping like mushrooms. You cannot actually blame them, there ar