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I think both options are used. You can either be an employee with a set termination date when starting, or a contractor invoicing for your hours. Contractor should have a higher ho…

I updated the OP. I don't mind big gaps between contracts, another reason why I'm considering contracts is because I feel like 2-3 weeks of vacation a year is way too little.

It seems that full time employment isn't for me, but I don't feel I have what it takes to be an entrepreneur: I don't seem to have a good idea, and I don't think I would be persist…

> I can help you with some ideas if you want. Sure, I'm always curious to hear ideas! Thanks

> But once you've seen what you've seen, you can't unsee it. What do you do then?

Definitely doing this already, but there is still several years to go.

I've done staff augs before, I hope to never do staff augs again. You are not respected, and have to absorb all the cost of poor decisions made before your time.

Aiming for FI only means that you'll eat the same shit but for much less time (i.e. 10 years vs 40+ years)

> a 100% sane assessment of his situation. Nothing could be a more accurate picture of most of our working lives than the OP's post To be fair, it is extremely hard to tell, even f…

I'm far from an expert, I'd say intermediate. There are people I work with who know far more than I do. The company specializes in a couple of frameworks so yes they sell expertise…

Thanks, your blog has pretty good posts, I enjoy reading them.

Can you do it though? Public sector men's that you're paid less, a third of your pay is out away in a pension you cant touch until you turn 65 (if it's still there then). I've alwa…

That's the thing... I've worked at many different places (startups come and go fast), and I've never worked on something that I felt very strongly about. I was always solving someo…

That's the thing though: how do you start? Where do you find clients? I obviously can't go after any of my current employer's clients, I don't have friends who studied CS and work …

I negotiated my initial salary well (from talking with other colleagues who also shared their salary), but the only thing my company does is an annual performance review and a rais…

Value provided to my employer is more or less known: they sell my time for about 5x what they pay me (software consultancy). The stress is over issues that the client is pressuring…

I have considered freelancing, but I don't know where to start. The only place I know of is fiver and elance which have pretty bad reputation and where I couldn't charge enough for…

Thanks for the input. Like WaxProlix, I'd be very interested to hear more. How to shift to freelancing (fiver/elance/whatever it's called today doesn't seem too good), and how does…

How did you get the gig? It seems my local and national government (Canada) only hires FTEs. I've applied before but was never successful.

FI/RE is a tremendous idea, and that's the thing that motivates me. I've been working on it for a few years now, but it's still far away. But it feels like it's not enough, I don't…

Haha yes, I love this joke. I've heard it before and that's how it feels.

> changed my focus to collecting as much money from the wealthy bosses as I could while providing as little value as I could. I thought about this and tried it this past year. It d…

Looking at the last five years of my career, I have come to realize I might hate working for someone else. I resent spending 48 weeks a year in an office and stressing over issues …