Not necessarily. Depends on what your goals are. I&#x27;m a freelance IT consultant and I love it, especially the part about about finding leads and working for many different clients on new and interesting challenges.<p>If freelance work dried up in my segment, I&#x27;d look for other entrepreneurial opportunities, which could very well mean not working in software development or IT anymore, but I certainly wouldn&#x27;t settle for working as an employee. It just isn&#x27;t for me.<p>Besides, the high level of job security is a fallacy. As an employee you&#x27;re working for only one client: Your employer. If that employer suddenly decides you&#x27;re redundant you&#x27;re out of a steady income at once with no other clients or leads to compensate for that.<p>You can&#x27;t exactly always be on the lookout for another position while on a job because your current employer will get suspicious and ask you what you think you&#x27;re doing. For an entrepreneur always to be looking for new leads is the default mode so losing a deal - while unfortunate - isn&#x27;t an end-of-the-line scenario in most cases.