I got a taste of freelance work by working on a Excel database for a health care institution. They wanted to make their schedule available in Excel and reusable. So they could fill it in every time again and again.*
They got a few Excel templates which I connected with each other. In this Excel ‘database’ they could let each employee fill in the hours they worked. These Excel templates with the hours were connected by formulas with other Excels in which the administration department or schedule maker could keep the hours they worked and when they were paid double or 150 percent. This was when they were working more hours or on Sunday or at night.
It was a challenge but they were happy with it. I had to pay a lot of taxes on this project, because it was as a freelancer and not as a zzp'er in 2009.
* I did this assignment in 2009 and the person who gave me this assignment is the person that is still stalking me and raped me in 2011. In 2009 I got him out of my life and the care in Eastern part of The Netherlands gave me the assignment anyway although I told them I would not do the assignment if that man kept bothering me. They promised me he would bother me and kept their promise during the assignment I finished in 2009 for them. I changed my phone number, but in 2010 when I was in Mongolia I was bother by this man again because a so called friend gave him my phone number. He has been bothering me ever since. He is not in my life, but tries to get in it unsuccessfully. He is a stalker.