For one, you can live practically anywhere in world and still be able to maintain a successful freelance career. Not to mention that creative fields are not only areas where freelancing is popular any more.

Today, accountants, trainers, computer technicians, etc. are all able to earn a living as freelancers. Regardless of freelancing field you are interested in, there are some important things you should know that will help you get started and get successful. In addition, most importantly, freelancing is no longer considered something that you did when you could not find a real job, but rather as a viable career option. Check Internet about getting started as a freelancer and also get involved in online forums. Of course, always double-check any information you get. Many unscrupulous people out there will promise you instant freelance success if you buy their products. Just remember that road to freelance success will never be easy, but takes a lot of hard work and patience. Eventually, if you produce good work and market yourself incessantly, you will, with a bit of luck, find yourself on path to being a successful freelancer.

Bio: Janet K. Ilacqua is a freelance writer based in Tracy, California and specializing in academic ghostwriting and prosperity. For more information about her services, check her website at http://www.writeupondemand.com

Another important aspect of this success model is that one has only one self’s to blame for one’s own success for failure. And yet given low success rate in Amway, "...the data from one investigative report reveal that only 1,000 of over 200,000 distributors ever achieved rank of Direct Distributor or higher," it is also quite clear that company does not offer success to anyone who enters business [Bromley, 1995:151]. How can all these well-meaning people not succeed? The only ideologically accepted explanation is that these well-meaning people had no commitment to "the dream.” The product is irrelevant. It is keeping dream alive and resisting everything that could possibly rob one of The American Dream that counts. For "the dream" is God’s blessing, divine will, American Way, family, morality, and free-enterprise system. Hence, The American Dream becomes a cardinal article of faith, a foundation stone of America’s civil religion. [Striker 1984: 128]As Streiker describes it, product lines in Amway come to signify and reveal something central to growth of company and role of ideology. Amway is a performance-based business that rewards people in direct proportion to their effort. The bigger financial goal, more time and effort a distributor will need to put into his or her business. With an Amway business, a distributor can work as much or little as he or she likes. The rewards are based directly on distributor's accomplishments.

Recently, American success model has been taken a battering. The competition for business markets and jobs is stiff . The faith in business has been eroded by corporate fraud scandals, massive layoffs, and outsourcing. However, at least for now, it remains predominant success model in today’s America.

Bio: Janet K. Ilacqua is a freelance writer based in Tracy, California. She specializes in academic and inspirational writing. For more information about her and about Ilacqua Associates, check her website at http://www.writeupondemand.com.