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Please could you elaborate a little more on how steady income is a marketing trick. Seem pretty set in stone to me. At a set date you will get paid a set month

• white-flame 10y ago
  The question of whether or not that will continue from one month to the next is completely out of your hands as an employee. Regardless of how well do you do your job, if any of the billion layers above you bungle their budget, or their marketing, or there's merging or reshuffling between departments, or somebody just plain doesn't like you, your "steady income" can vanish in an instant. The company's health is not tied to your performance, and if the company's health wanes enough, you start getting squeezed as a bottom-runger before anybody at the top.
• eropple 10y ago
  You might get paid. I've had companies go broke on me. (As a consultant, I factor in non-paying clients to my rate. It's much harder to do that as an employee.) You might keep your job. Your definition of "good enough job" and your boss's might not be the same thing. Or your boss might lose an internal fight and your team could be laid off tomorrow. As a consultant, I always have at least two clients active at any given time that can pay my rent and monthly expenses. I work 24 to 30 hours a week. The "marketing trick" is that you are being hired in exactly the same way I am: tomorrow you may be gone, with no recourse, nothing. In a sane world you'd be compensated for that risk; I am, as I'm pricing that into my rates and making hay while the sun shines. :)
• jsprogrammer 10y ago
  You could arrange for the same while self-employed. One account could pay out to a spending account on regular intervals.