They loved the idea. As my articles came out and people saw them, I began getting calls to write similar articles for other publications, and it just snowballed from there. I'm a full-time freelance writer. I just started working from home and developed a career as I went along. I wouldn't do anything else.
Freelancers are listeners.
They're aggressive and self-motivated. Freelancers have to be willing to work long hours, sometimes with little or no pay in the beginning, to build their writing portfolio. Freelancers are open minded - very interested in people and what they do. A love for the written word, and the ability to be self-motivated. If you're not self-motivated, you'll never make it as a freelancer.