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Consulting to me carries connotations of much higher skill and much higher pay by orders of magnitude.
by emerged 6y ago
Consulting to me carries connotations of much higher skill and much higher pay by orders of magnitude.
- Chris2048 6y agoThen call yourself a consultant and raise your prices ;-)
- emerged 6y agoPretty much, although with high paying consulting jobs you usually are hired because you're trusted for some reason. Either through friends / friend of friends and/or industry fame.
- luckylion 6y agoMultiple orders of magnitude? Work for a month, relax for a decade? It's funny how people understand terms differently. To me, consultant says mostly "working for a large-ish consultant company on large projects for large companies", while freelance is "self-employed", working on your own.
- gregjor 6y agoThe terms have nothing to do with skill or pay. Freelance means working for different companies as an independent resource or expert, as opposed to an employee. Consultant means someone who offers advice professionally. One can do both at the same time. Orthogonal, as someone else wrote. People who get jobbed out by “body shops” to fill chairs or boxes in an org chart are called temps, or contractors. Contractor can also refer to anyone who works according to a contract rather than an employment relationship. In the real world the terms get used interchangeably.
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- jacquesm 6y agoI aim for 3:1 or so when working alone, work real hard for three months then have the rest of the year to pursue my own projects.
- luckylion 6y agoDon't you get tempted to just work the whole year (and the next two or three) and just retire?
- jacquesm 6y agoToo many side projects... I get tempted not to work at all and cut my expenses even further. Also, I'd rather just cherry pick the good jobs instead of lowering the price to be busy all the time.