Posted on 09/05/2014 7:51:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Our oldest, who has his master’s degree, had a hard time finding a full time job, so he started freelancing to make ends meet. He found a full time position, but still enjoys his freelancing.
That’s a lot of Schedule C’s.
This should be the way EVERYONE works. They would then have to make quarterly tax payments and pay both sides of the FUTA SUTA tax. It might make everyone more aware of how wasteful the government is and inspire them to hate it and politicians as much as the “freelancer”, that’s self-employed do.
I seldom have a kind word for lawyers but your post is correct.
Some make two or three times the income that their employee counterparts do and that is after paying all their taxes.
It is the compensation for being at risk. You don’t work you don’t get paid. your skills are perishable though, you have to keep up to date on your own.
Offices, where people spend most of the day in a cubicle sending email to the person 20 feet away, are stupid.
There are reasons for going into the office to meet with other people but you should have a reason for beating yourself up on a traffic trek every day.
I guess you inlaw is not working for Yahoo.
Actually my daughter-in-law had this position created for her because of her highly skilled background and experience. She was ready for ‘a office job’ ...though in another field it’s closely related. There were several companies trying to get her on board.
She’s not in a cubicle by any means....
I’ve never had a job my whole life. Have freelanced and owned several small businesses.
It can be a bit nerve-wracking at times but I’ve been doing it for more than 40 years and at this point there will never be a change.
Two years before I officially retired I decided I didn’t want to work full time anymore. I quit my job, rolled my 401k into an IRA, signed up with a job agency and got a contract with my old company pretty much setting my own schedule and hours I wanted to work. I didn’t have to attend all the meetings, didn’t have to participate in reviews or do peer reviews. It was great.
>> Fundamentally, for many it’s a way of Going Galt. &etc
Your post absolutely nailed it as to why I’m “freelancing” (or whatever you want to call it).
The shadow cash economy is also huge. What do you think Craigslist is all about? Its a giant shadow network. That’s how some folks are getting by. Buying and selling stuff.
Yes, there can be anxious times. You are there for one reason when you contract, to produce work. Nobody loves you, nobody cares about how you feel or where you want to be in five years etc. if they ever did when you are an employee.
I’m in my 16th year of it myself. I can’t say I’ve missed a day when I wanted to work yet either and our industry has been through two hard times since I left the mink padded outhouse that was employment.
I have not had a Personal Development Plan session or a counseling session or salary treatment or anything like that in going on two decades. My evaluation is more work and I test my rate ceiling by asking for more when the climate demands it.
Regulation is finding us though. The monster does not like our independence. They are going to tax us to death and bury us in regulations. We all break a law of some kind every day.
The Democrat-Union-IRS complex will get these out of control bourgeois running dogs under control, soon enough. They are already pretty close to banning independent contracting.
I wonder if they count all the illegals selling that same bag of oranges to each other?
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