Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 18:02:41 CST 2010
Jim L., Well, I ran my own business for 15 years, so I'm familiar with the routine. I'm just a mediocre to poor businessman. Steve Erbach Neenah, WI On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Steve: > > Why not go the contractor route. Businesses are much more likely to take on > a short-term contract and when you are finished you are gone... It is a lot > cheaper for them and they are happy...but they pay you a premium price for > the time you are there. > > If you get enough steady clients, you end up being paid a lot more than any > regular staff, work a lot less, you can specialize in the type of work you > like, get to do a lot more interesting jobs, no office politics to tolerate > and you get treated better than regular staff. The only downside is that > you > have to keep you books and billing updated but after a few months you stop > noticing the inconvenience. > > Jim > > >