Leaving the whole pie to only a few of them, amplifying the huge differences between the two status. Pay is a (huge) one, not having to do overtime is another.

I leave the question open to hopefully get many great answers on all the different subjects that affects that feeling and decision not to go.

While this question is really global, I'll be interested in any studies, facts, articles, opinions regarding local markets such as US, India and even Australia in which I'm in love with.

Don't know about others, but thinking about myself:


I have a job that I'm currently happy with. I work regularly and get paid regularly. Of course there's always too much things to do, but still, the work is mostly interesting and the workload is approximately constant and predictable. Hardly so with freelancing (think of work requests as a Poisson process, and how the stability of frequency depends on the average frequency; a cafeteria with 10 customers and 1 toilet is not linearly proportional to a cafeteria with 100 customers and 10 toilets, i.e. the queue is not similar).
Going freelance would require me to do all the marketing, selling, bureaucracy etc. boring and scary (but admittedly, important) stuff. Actually I don't think I could do it successfully. At least I would hate it.

