![]() ![]() After 15 years of doing customer service and sales, really having no marketable skills nor degree, this is my make-or-break as a professional.ĭespite all my hard work, I still count myself as being fortunate and without this opportunity I'd probably be returning to the workforce as yet another disposable body.Īlso, get your Quickbooks certification. I have the rudiments down but I'm still studying and practicing (Barron's E-Z Bookkeeping is my current book) my skills. I took an online continuing education course in accounting and bookkeeping and my friend ended up accepting me as a partner in her small bookkeeping practice, fully aware that I was going to be learning on the job. I was in the same boat as you a few months back. so that also involved reading hundreds of books, watching youtube videos, reading content from the IRS and state tax websites, learning from an entry level job, and having lots of mentors. Sure, I took some classes, but I focused on learning content rather than earning a piece of paper. I have so much work, in fact, that I have to turn down customers. They either get my fantastic services or not. My firm services 25+ sets of books, and I don't need to prove anything to anyone. I don't have any certificates, and I'm the best bookkeeper in a 35 mile radius. Reading books and taking classes will help, but I constantly find myself among incompetent people with credentials. And I promise you that only experience will give you those skills. #FREELANCE BOOKKEEPING JOBS NEAR ME HOW TO#You just need to simply KNOW how to be a bookkeeper and a business person. So in reality, you don't need any sort of certificate or degree to be a freelance bookkeeper. They don't even have to follow employment law, because you'd be a 1099 contractor. ![]() ![]() They don't care about your credentials, they care about results. Clients typically will be more concerned about their budget, because they are a smaller business. A client might need 2 hours per week or 2 hours per day. You might be busy now, but have no work later. There is a level of investment and risk required. You'll have lots of different clients to serve and you need to basically design your product/service/execution/logistics from scratch. That's what you were hired to figure out. No one will train you and no one will tell you what steps to take. You need to be completely flexible by industry and software. It requires a vast amount of skills and knowledge from business, to sales, to even IT. The reason why they "require" a degree is to narrow down the huge amount of people who want work spoon fed to them easy street.įreelance, on the other hand, is totally different. You just show up, you sit around for 8 hours, you get training provided to you, perform redundant and repetitive tasks that require very little thought, you leave, and you get paid on a timely and consistent basis. Freelance work and W2 Jobs are 2 completely separate markets. ![]()
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