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> I accidentally wound up managing a cafe about 25 hours a week for free, was that not work? As long as the cafe pays taxes, follows the law like any other bus
by donw 6y ago
> I accidentally wound up managing a cafe about 25 hours a week for free, was that not work?
As long as the cafe pays taxes, follows the law like any other business, and claims you as an employee, sounds like work to me.
You could also be part of a nonprofit that holds mini-concerts in nursing homes, provided that all the appropriate tax paperwork gets filed.
- vertex-four 6y agoI worked as a volunteer, not an employee. I also could've been volunteering looking after plants, or sitting around doing nothing in particular except chatting with people, and the organisation would've likely signed off on it. I also could've been volunteering as the one person who knew how to manage the sound system and turned up for two hours a week but was the reason we had any customers at all. There's no reason some random company is trustworthy, or some arbitrary amount of time is valued specifically. Would self-employed work not count under your system? What if I was doing something with the hope that it will make money in future? What if it's not, in fact, intended to make money at all, but would be non-profit work? If I set up a company that would sign off on me and my friends, would that change anything?