Some of the most productive people in the world these days start off their first job in big corporations. And they may do that for 10, even 20 years, some of the most successful entrepreneurs like media, Maven, Michael Bloomberg, who became wildly successful billionaire, one of the most successful billionaires, philanthropist of the United States, he worked at a big investment bank till he was nearly 40 years old. Then he created his own company. So some people do that increasingly these days though, the most productive people don't want to work for some big corporation for 20 years. They want to start right now. And at least have a side gig where they're doing what they care about the most right now.
And these days, you can be in college you can be in high school, you can be 12 years old and start making things making products making services, making websites Facebook pages without ever waiting to be officially hired by some big company. Yes, we're in the era of gigs where everybody is a freelancer. This may or may not apply to you. But this next section will give you a lot of tips specifically on how to be a more productive freelancer. Because before you can have a great big company, you need a small company and it's likely to be a company of you. And you can give yourself big fancy titles but at court You are a freelancer, if it's just you producing a product or service so if this applies to you, I urge you spend some time in this section on how to be a successful and productive freelancer.