I actually look at the "employee" strategy as very similar to freelancing. As an employee, I see myself as a single-person business, and the companies that I wo

I actually look at the "employee" strategy as very similar to freelancing. As an employee, I see myself as a single-person business, and the companies that I work for are my customers. Just like a freelancer, I choose what companies I want to work for (though I only work for one company at a time). One of the perceived downsides of being an employee is that you can't "be your own boss", but I don't think it's very different for an employee to be accountable to his/her employer than for a founder to be accountable to his/her customers or a freelancer to be accountable to his/her clients. The only way to truly "be your own boss" is to become wealthy enough that you don't need to be accountable to anyone (for financial well-being).