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Wild guess: gp is self-employed and can manage their own time. I’m assuming that with some planning you can carve “learning time” across contracts.
by znpy 1y ago
Wild guess: gp is self-employed and can manage their own time. I’m assuming that with some planning you can carve “learning time” across contracts.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoNo, I always worked for companies. However, there was never the "996" shit, you see, these days. I generally did about 50 hours per week. Sometimes more; sometimes, less. Sometimes, if the extracurricular stuff also benefitted my day job, I could get the company to help out, there.
- znpy 1y agoI see, thank you for correcting me!
- jonas21 1y agoHow did you manage to write off for your expenses for tax purposes? I thought this was not possible for regular employees in the US (your profile says you're in the New York). I'd love to be able to do this.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoIt’s been awhile, so I can’t remember exactly how it worked (I’ve used an accountant for the last 30 years or so), but I was able to argue that it went to benefit my day job (which it actually did), and I mixed in a lot of stuff that directly benefited my day job (like taking my team out for a holiday dinner, on my personal expense, as the company didn’t do that kind of thing). I wouldn’t do it without a decent accountant. In my experience, they always paid for themselves.
- tanjtanjtanj 1y agoI don’t know your exact circumstances but it sounds like your “decent accountant” was helping you commit tax fraud.
- dmoy 1y agoPrior to TCJA there were a wider range of allowed deductions for W2 workers. You would not be able to (legally) do that today
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI believe that. It's been a very long time, since I declared anything like that. I think I remember my accountant telling me that I couldn't anymore, so I shrugged, and declared what I could. Also, I retired in 2017. Thanks for not immediately going on the attack.
- dmoy 1y agoFor programmers it wasn't that big of a deal. Maybe some electronics purchases were no longer deductible, or a little bit of software, etc. Home office could be sizeable. Some other professional got royally screwed - e.g. a concert violinist can no longer deduct a $50,000 violin purchase if they're employed by an orchestra as a W2
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoDoubt it. Don't forget that they also have a stake in things. That's why we pay them. That's why I say we should have accountants. I'm always thrilled to have strangers on the Internet attack me, and even attack an accountant that they never even heard about before. Thanks! Have a great day!
- tanjtanjtanj 1y agoI didn't attack you, I'm sorry you took it that way. Have a great day, or whichever passive aggressive sign-off you'd prefer!