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If you have enough connections to get you through your first 6 months or so then you can make the jump. Often when consulting your rate is double your normal take home so it balances out the period of searching for more work. But you highlighted the key anxiety in going freelance: you will always have to be selling your services. Its just like any startup except you are the product. Having to get new gigs will always be part of the job whether its now, 6 months from now, or 3 years from now