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Hettie Maylam, 27, is a student of multimedia journalism – “Which is like an MA,” she says – at Winchester University. Her course finishes at the end of this month and, naturally, she’s thinking about what she’ll do then. The answer? “I’ll probably freelance.”

As well as being Freelancing Matters’ new editor, David Prosser is new to freelancing as well, so we asked him how he came to join the rest of us.

Freelance working is a way of life all around the world, as Hungarian Peter Csobanczi illustrates.

The thing about being a freelancer is that you’re often very busy – and not just between the hours of 9 and 5. We caught up with freelancer Nicola Venning, who is one of those whose work life spills into out-of-office time.

There are as many reasons to be freelance as there are freelancers and as many ways to be one.