1. You want stimulation of working together with others and do better work within a group environment.

2. Your company gives you access to accounts and challenges you feel you couldn’t find on your own.

3. You don’t feel you have skills or confidence to get out there and be sure of getting enough work on your own to pay bills.

4. You may want to go freelance one day, but first want to get experience and build up a portfolio and reputation while working for a company or agency.

Finally, being freelance or working as an employee is no indicator of how ‘good’ you are. You won’t find all best writers are freelancers, or employees. I know some excellent writers who work for themselves, and some equally good writers who are employed.

When you come down to it, we all make choices based on what suits our personalities, circumstances and ambitions. There is no best way or even better way. We all have different goals in life and simply find route that best serves those goals.

Your age doesn't matter, however young or old you are.

Where you live doesn't matter, whether you're in a big city or out in country somewhere.

>> 3. You can get started without giving up your day job.

You don't have to give up your job to get started. Plenty of professional commercial writers earn their salary and then do a little 'moonlighting' on side. But even if you are employed in an unrelated profession, you can still do some writing when you're not at work.

>> 4. A good economy or a bad economy. They are both good for freelance writers.

When economy is roaring, there is always plenty of work for good freelance writers. Companies have more writing work than they can handle with their own staff.

But here is magical part: even when economy goes bad, and companies are laying off employees by thousands, it's still a good time for freelance writers. The more employees that companies let go, more dependant they become on outsourcing their writing needs to freelancers.

When times are bad, this is a wonderful position to be in. Nobody can fire you, and there is always some work out there.

>> Concluding thoughts.

If there is a better way to work from home and make good money, I haven't come across it. Even if you don't have any commercial writing experience right now, you can still learn and still start earning some extra money.