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Depending on a particular situation all of these can be upsides. - If you can commute in a bike, you get some regular exercise. Overall I am more physically ac
by srg0 5y ago
Depending on a particular situation all of these can be upsides.
- If you can commute in a bike, you get some regular exercise. Overall I am more physically active when I work from the office. If the self-employed gig goes well, you may need to scale to more than one person and get an office anyway.
- Lunch break and small talk with your colleagues can be a positive experience, but if you eat what you brought from home, or want to skip meal, or read a book in silence, the truth is nobody really cares.
- Some stress is unavoidable, and as you noted income insecurity stress can be minimized when you are employed, and you can focus on few things you can do well. Also, you can leave work at work, and dedicate free time to family, sport, hobbies, there's more than one way to deal with stress. Overall I think employment is less stressful unless it's a shitty underpaid job.
- marcus_holmes 5y agoThis is all true too :) I generally find the stresses different from employment. Income insecurity is bad when freelancing (though that's illusory - I have to annoy one person to lose my job, as opposed to annoying all my clients when freelancing). But dealing with bad management decisions is infuriating and creates a sense of powerlessness and outrage that I find really stressful to deal with. For some reason, retail therapy works to defuse some of this stress, whereas buying things only increases my freelancing income insecurity.