In Singapore today, there are more and more self employed people due to the many opportunities arising from the gig economy. Many of them are freelancers working in many different sectors with varying skills. Some of the common examples of self employed jobs are financial advisers, property agents, grab drivers, business owners, freelance musicians/singers etc.
While being self employed brings about the flexibility of time due to no fixed working hours and possibly higher pay when they work harder, the financial aspect has to be planned out well enough due to instability of income as compared to a full time employee working in the corporate world who receives fixed income every month. There is another part which self employed workers need to take note of, which is they have essentially no CPF savings to use for housing or have any for retirement as well.
On the other side, being employed means getting...