Option 3: form a worker owned co-op and distribute profits between members instead of shareholders and management.
Do you have any examples of this actually working?
In a few years I hope to have a company working like this.
Poll: Should you work for yourself or take a full-time job?
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Re: Poll: Should you work for yourself or take a full-time job?
#22Option 3: form a worker owned co-op and distribute profits between members instead of shareholders and management.
This would take a lot of management though.. What happens if someone is contributing a lot less than the others? Or a lot more?
What happens in any other company in this situation?
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#23I wish I could get a job that pays well, offers camaraderie, fulfillment, and opportunities to grow. I have tried many times to fit in. In a 35 year career the longest I ever held a job was 4 years. I finally figured out that I was not employable. Happy to be working for myself.
I think the next best step would be for you to be the boss that you always wanted to have and hope to attract minds that are like your younger self.
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#24For the most part nobody "should" anything. In general, if you're entrepreneurial, yeah, work a part time job and build something. If you're all in in developing professionally for the corporate ladder, go grab a full time job.
what about if you just care about the work itself?
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#25First I traded time for money, working in tech, saved a small fortune.
Now, run my own saas, trading money for more time.
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#26drop out and be a criminal. it's really the most fulfilling option
please advise
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#27It's not surprising that at this point the poll is at 21 vs 22. Competition will ensure that incentives remain more or less balanced between the two options (the less freelancers there are, the more they can charge, and the less full timers there are, the more they will be paid). Unless we lived in a world where one of them was so much easier to attract talent to that the other just died off. For specific people in s…
It isn't balanced anymore.
Re: Poll: Should you work for yourself or take a full-time job?
#28I wish I could get a job that pays well, offers camaraderie, fulfillment, and opportunities to grow. I have tried many times to fit in. In a 35 year career the longest I ever held a job was 4 years. I finally figured out that I was not employable. Happy to be working for myself.
Check out DAOs, to me they strike a good balance.
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#29I currently do both.
I have a small SaaS that I work on one day a week.
The last 4 days I work a job.
The SaaS pays by far the highest hourly and feeds my hunger to create.
The job gives me fulfilment socially and makes me feel part of something.
It feels like I should double down on one. But I really enjoy both, so why?
Re: Poll: Should you work for yourself or take a full-time job?
#30Option 3: form a worker owned co-op and distribute profits between members instead of shareholders and management.
There's also the partnership model of accountants and lawyers - as a normal part of the career ladder, everyone at or above a certain level of seniority collectively owns the firm.