[asterisk-biz] How to live in this world without job

[Bill Michaelson]

Well put. The other side of the coin, repeatedly demonstrated at every 
economic downturn, is that the security benefits of full-time employment 
relationships can be over-rated.

Of course, you implied this in your "anything else" clause...

Alex Balashov wrote:
> I would, however, throw in a cautionary note whose general effect is 
> that freelance consulting as a full-time professional endeavour is 
> governed by the same laws of economics and marketplace realities as any 
> other business endeavour.  So, I think my concern is with universalising 
> this path or suggesting that it is for everyone or even for most people. 
>   Being on your own as a contractor isn't going to bring automatic 
> money, prosperity, or even survival any more than anything else is 
> automatic.
>
> As a successful freelancer, I am confident you already know this very 
> intimately.  But I think it's important that people thinking about doing 
> it understand this.
>
> Most of what can be said about the sustainability of this approach can 
> be summed up as:  "There's a difference between a [successful] business 
> model and 'doing work for money.'"
>
> People in the latter category generally end up feeling like they have 
> the worst of all worlds - no security, working twice (or more) as much 
> for half (or less) the money, and 8 different bosses (clients).  If you 
> end up in this situation, the "emancipatory" feelings of "escaping" the 
> "slavery of the 21st century" (the 9 to 5) can evaporate faster than you 
> can say "I'd be making more on the unemployment dole."
>   

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