i been fulltime freelancing for more than 4 years now. i did inhouse job for another 4 years before that. so to answer your question, YES. as for subcontracting, it depends whether the vendor is an outsourcing house like ArtBully Productions. they can legally subcontract the work to other individual artists. although it is…
Ideally you have set aside reserves that you can live of several months if not years. (Of course this money needs to be accessible, which can mean losing money in times like these with low interest rates.) That's one of the reasons why it's better to attempt freelancing after you have already been employed for a couple of…