(?) Can you make a living doing freelance IT-related stuff in Europe? (/Belgium)

I wonder if there some people from Europe /Belgium on this board who can give me some advice. Off course everybody may give his/here opinion, but I prefer to hear some life experience :wink:

so my question basicly is:
*Can you make a living doing Freelance work? I would not focus only on webdesign:
*

[list]
[]Webdesign (flash, asp, asp.net, html, …)
[
]Other visual multimedia (cd-rom, …)
[]Office guru (from templates to custom office appz to powerpoint presentations to SQL and DB implementation)
[
]Windows applications
[]Usability consultant
[
]IT Project management
[]New oppurunaties seeker / ideas / automatisation of admin processes
[
]Tester / debugger
[]Technical writer aka manuals, best product seeker
[
]…
[/list]Yes I like to do all does things :slight_smile:

Preferably for people/companies/governement that has strong needs and now a days offent get ripped …

Ow I don’t want to become rich, I want to have control over my life and to the things I want, when and where I want to do them

Anyone?