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

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**Created:** [April 2, 2005, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-you-make-a-living-doing-freelance-it-related-stuff-in-europe-belgium/85164 "2005-04-02T10:17:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gompje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gompje](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gompje)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-you-make-a-living-doing-freelance-it-related-stuff-in-europe-belgium/85164/1 "2005-04-02T10:17:19Z")

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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 😉

so my question basicly is:  
\*Can you make a living doing Freelance work? I would not focus only on webdesign:  
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[list]  
[_]Webdesign (flash, asp, [asp.net](http://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 🙂

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?