A question for freelancers: does the number of orders you complete decrease significantly in the winter and summer seasons?

Question

Freelance

You can often hear that these are the "dead seasons" for freelancers. And how are you?

Answer 1

I didn’t come across the “dead seasons”, there is work all year round, a couple of times a year (spring - autumn) I myself take a couple of weeks of rest, the rest of the time I keep just enough orders to work no more than 40 hours a week, if it gets more - I raise prices and refuse small things. In case of a global fur animal, I have a reserve in cash for 6-8 months of a quiet life, until it came in handy.

Answer 2

Summer and the beginning of the year. They rest in the summer, at the beginning of the year there is no money.

Answer 3

Here, in my opinion, it would be worth clarifying which exchanges we are talking about. In Russia, one day off after another in the first half of the year, and then the summer-vacation season. And at the end of the year, almost from mid-December, they celebrate.
Working with an American customer, everything turns out differently. As we started working on January 2, we are working almost without breaks. And last year I did not notice any seasonality in foreign freelancing.

Answer 4

In general, nonsense, the work of the last two years is more than I can do.
A neighbor over there works for 70 bucks an hour, even at the beginning of the year he complained about raising something to 140.