Fulltime Freelancers, Side-giggers, Solopreneurs: Can we move far alone?

I have missed yesterday's #teammalaysia Steemit Meeting due to work and I'm kinda kicking myself watching all the posts from yesterday night. It's okay, it's amazing to see that the group is getting bigger, (but not as fast as BTC growth the past 12 hours. I now fear that growth).

What's your gig?

Working late night yesterday, designing visuals and doing copywriting for other brands, made me wonder. Which category do I fall in?

Fulltime freelancer, side-giggers or a to an extent solopreneur?

Unlike my friends with a permanent role, or job title, I put on different hats depending on these diverse situation.
From consulting, anchoring to video producing, I have tried more things this year than ever.
Thanks to God, I have been able to build quite a reputable working CV within a niche industry and slowly getting more people to notice my work.

Working on your own is great, but...

The experience that I have learned during this period was invaluable and have grown my network ten-folds.

But after nearly 1 year, I realized working alone has limitations. Here are the cons that I can think of now:

• Those flexible hours that we preach to others? It's just another excuse to work more.
• No support from colleagues. But no headaches from them too.
• Cleaning up your shit alone sometimes is just too taxing.

Deep within me, I wanted to build something bigger and better.
Something that can affect the lives of millions.
Don't we all?

Beyond this

I believe that in order to move forward, I have to build my team. Realizing that I couldn't do it all on my all is essential.
Seriously, I have been trying to code for decades, and if it was that easy, I'd be the CTO of a Silicon Valley company already.

Over the last few months, I have been trying to secure talents (with some experience) who I think will fit in the team. Here are a few of the problems that I have faced:

• They're a bit skeptical if the job can help them sustain their daily needs. Some of the more experienced ones have families to feed, and they can't settle for lower initial wages. Thus, how do I attract talent to work with my team without proper funding?
• Others might have similar vision, but they prefer to work on their own version.
• Some thinks that the market for the work that we are going to work on is saturated.
• Another guy feels that it's hard to commit to one, as he has so many options to explore.

These feedbacks made me wonder, whether my sales pitch is lacking or everyone feels that it's best to have a stable job at the moment. Or am I trying to secure the wrong people?

I believe there's a lot of experience entrepreneurs in Steemit who might stumble upon this post, and I hope that you guys can give some opinion for those who might be in the same boat as I am.

Thanks for reading.

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Hmm... I should put a post-script here, like those cool writers.
A Mirian at heart, a Francophonic Sarawakian that tries to practice kaizen and the art of Life.

Maybe I'll find a mentor on this platform.