Muskan Khandelwal, is a student based in Pune who started freelancing with the assistance of our team. She has secured various opportunities, including translation, content writing, and product reviews.

With our team's help, she created an Upwork profile and was able to secure four freelance projects on the platform, earning a total of USD 836 while continuing her studies.

Furthermore, she landed a client on another freelance platform called Moonlyte, where she is helping a GST-practising firm create website content and blogs.

Additionally, she secured an internship with a startup consulting firm, where she is paid a stipend.

In February, she earned a stipend of 13k by working 3-4 hours daily, and in March, it will increase.

She is able to earn more than 15k a month by working a maximum of 5 hours daily while still focusing on her studies.

Check out her Upwork profile here: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~012150f0586a1b9384/

Kumudini Saxena, a mother of two with a diverse professional background, based out of ghaziabad.

She is a 2001 BSc in Physics graduate from Utkal University and a 2010 MBA graduate from IMT Ghaziabad.

With 17 years of experience in marketing, sales, banking, and automobiles, she worked as an HR Manager at Forever New Clothing Pvt Ltd.

However, she had to quit her job to take care of her newborn.

Determined to continue her career journey, Kumudini started her own business consultancy in 2012. Things were going well until Covid happened.

Unfortunately, the impact of the Covid pandemic caused her business to collapse, leaving her without work for two years.

Due to covid her earning came down from INR 7-8 lakhs per month to 5 lakhs per year

She has had a staff of 10-12 people which was down 3 to 2 people and then was working solo. She was low on confidence

In February 2023, Kumudini decided to enrol in the course.

As she attended classes and completed assignments, her confidence gradually returned. She embraced the concept of freelancing and actively engaged with platforms like LinkedIn and Upwork.

She secured her first client from Jordan even before starting with the course in March 2023.

Subsequently, she obtained clients from Japan and Poland, primarily utilizing the cold mailing strategies taught during the sessions for outreach.

Currently, she successfully manages 20+ clients, and she earned 17 lakhs in 3 months.

She has established her new office in Orissa. She has more recruitment projects in hand.

She is managing her career alongside taking care of her two kids.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumudini-nanda/

She is currently working with an Indian and Russian venture company, which is into infrastructure development, they plan to take their current manpower of 500 to 1000 in less than one year, and she is allotted this project.

She has 20 people working under her, 5 interns and 15 full time employees.

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Many of you may recall a video that went viral In June this year – of a senior executive with a private bank, screaming abuse at his teammates and humiliating them in front of their colleagues on a video call.

While the video triggered some of the worst memories of my life as a salaried employee of India Inc, it also reminded me exactly why I decided to stop looking for a job and become a freelancer in 2020.

👉🏻 Toxic bosses who feel threatened by more competent junior colleagues
👉🏻 Daily insecurities
👉🏻 Constant humiliation
👉🏻 Zero growth opportunities even after a decade of dedicated service No respect for experience or integrity

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These were some of the major reasons I decided enough was enough when, at the height of the Covid lockdown, some of my colleagues and I lost our jobs overnight, apparently because of ‘cost cutting’, which we later found out was a lie. Our reporting manager merely wanted to use Covid as an excuse to get rid of some of us.

The experience taught me how unstable and insecure even the most apparently secure job could be. And how I was at the mercy of a few people who could decide my fate from a distance, without taking my hard work, loyalty, or expertise into account.

So I decided to be my own boss. Even though I was a single parent, and had no previous experience of freelancing.

I knew I was good at what I did, and I knew I could do it far better without someone constantly breathing down my neck.

So, I launched my career as a freelance writer and consultant.

Yes, the journey had its ups and downs. When I started out, I wasn’t sure what kind of work would come my way. There was no assured salary at the end of the month. There were months when I received virtually no work. I had to learn how to manage my money so that one ‘dry’ month didn’t mean I couldn’t put food on the table.

Just over three years down the line, I can tell you this:

👉🏻 I am making more money than I ever made as a salaried employee

👉🏻 I am working from the peace of my home

👉🏻 I have flexible working hours

👉🏻 I have a steady stream of work that I have chosen to do

👉🏻 I can refuse work that I don’t want to do

👉🏻 I don’t have to deal with insecure bosses who feel they must put me down in order to raise themselves up

👉🏻 Today, my only regret is that I waited nearly a decade and a half before deciding to go solo. What a waste.

How many of you can say that?

Is AI a threat to me?

In the past six months or so, many people have told me that my livelihood is under threat from AI or artificial intelligence, that AI tools can write what I write in a fraction of the time that it takes me.

Initially, such talk made me nervous. Until I tried using some of the tools myself.

Do you know what I found?

Given the right prompts, some AI tools can imitate some of the most famous writers in the world, from Shakespeare to Rushdie. But it is I who has to instruct it to produce the content that I want to see. And unless my instructions are pinpoint, AI will not give me what I want.

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I also found that AI tools can be excellent research assistants, but the final output has to be mine. So they will only enhance my work, not take it away!

In the same way, once you begin actually knowing and using AI-powered tools, you will find what a blessing they can be for a freelance consultant, no matter which area of work you choose.

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I got an award in UK 13 years after failing to secure any UK jobs

It was my dream in college to get a job in a London-based firm. In my college, the top 4 UK law firms used to come to recruit candidates every year.

Although I got shortlisted for interviews at all the firms, my happiness was very short-lived - could not clear any of those interviews!

I was devastated for one year - it was the end of my dream.

Next year, I got jobs at top Indian law firms when I graduated. I should have been very happy, but I wasn’t. I didn’t get foreign jobs.

To top it all off, I was struggling at my law firm job in India as well.

I realised that college had not prepared us to be job-ready. Despite being a topper at one of India’s top law schools, we didn’t learn how to do real-life work.

My batchmates were facing the same problems - I saw very bright and hardworking batchmates getting shouted at, fired, crying, or quitting jobs themselves after losing their confidence.

A few of them are very successful today, but many didn’t survive the grind.

I struggled a lot myself, for the first 6-7 months.

The pain was very real. What could I do so that thousands of other lawyers didn’t have to face the same problems that I faced?

We then started hatching an idea to create courses that will enable young professionals to be job-ready.

A small business idea was born.

We worked hard, silently in the shadows, in slow burn mode, until we finalised a solid collaboration with our alma mater to certify those courses.

And then, we launched our first startup, even though I had very little experience.

I did not want to get into a comfort zone, and decided to quit early and act.

Fast forward 12 years.

We are catering to senior professionals from India,

I just received an award for my startup at the House of Lords in London for unicorns and sustainable startups.

Our startup is enabling thousands of Indian professionals from different walks of life to start working with international clients on the side.