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ADVANTAGES OF BEING A FREELANCE

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Unlike a common office worker, who must meet schedules, rules, rules, etc., the freelance engineer has powerful advantages that allow him to say how and when to do the job, as well as define his earnings based on his effort. In this post I will show you 5 advantages of being a freelance    1. The Journey decided by you! The first advantage of becoming a freelance is that you can work whenever you want. You can select your schedules. If you want to rest until noon, you can do it. As a freelancer, you can work during your most productive hours and those hours do not have become during normal business hours. It is also true that you will need being more disciplined and that everything depends on you. 2. You decide who to work for When you work for another person or for a company you have no option to choose who you work with or what projects you accept, everything usually comes from above. You may have to work for unprofessional or rude clients. But when you are a freela

A NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR PETROLEUM ENGINEERS

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Currently, most companies are complete in terms of office employment; if you are unemployed I have good news for you. The petroleum world is opening to the era of freelancer and you have the opportunity to belong to this update. You just have to strengthen your skills, prepare your portfolio and send your proposals to contractors. There are many opportunities, there are opportunities to do very simple or very complex jobs, from the digitalization of well data to complex interpretations of welltesting. It is very important that you keep in mind that to be a freelancer you must have a database of your own spreadsheets or of free distribution, since you must avoid the use of commercial programs. In the next post I will tell you about some free software which you can use without legal problems. For Become a successful freelancer petroleum engineer you must handle Internet very well and at least Microsoft Excel, for this reason I recommend that you strengthen t

15 Ways to become a Freelance Petroleum Engineer (Part I)

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In this post I will show you 5 ways to become a Freelance Petroleum Engineer . I will show you that your knowledge can be done outside the office of a traditional company. If you have a desire for freedom, then this post is indicated for you. One of the reasons that motivated me to create my blog, is due to the constant questions of several colleagues related to how a petroleum engineer can be a freelancer ?. Well, today I will start to share the best kept secret by many free agents.  While it´s true that there are professions that can easily perform as freelancer, including web development, community manager, accountants, etc., engineering is not the best known or intended to be, but there is an open field for engineers who decide become a freelancer. In future blog entries I will talk about the differences between a freelancer and a consultant, so you should not assume that it is the same. If you are petroleum engineering and you decided to get out of the rat