Being a freelancer can be a great way to transition into a new career path that you would like to build experience in. If you are good at what you do, you can even make more money being self-employed, than doing it full-time for an employer.

Other advantages include:

More autonomy over work: Choose assignments that you find meaningful to you, and reject those that you aren’t as interested in.
Better control over working hours: You don’t have fixed working hours and can usually work at any time as long as you get the job done by the deadline.
Greater exposure to a wide variety of assignments: You can pursue assignments from different industries, career areas, and countries – providing you with more dynamic work that is less mundane.
Better control of workload: Work as much or as little as you are comfortable with.