I think what you're missing here is that this article isn't about the tech industry, even though it's been cross-posted here. If you're an HR manager or a com

I think what you're missing here is that this article isn't about the tech industry, even though it's been cross-posted here. If you're an HR manager or a compliance officer with 20 years of industry-specific experience, there simply aren't any freelance gigs you can pick up, no matter how low-paid. And the experience you have isn't general experience at all. It's often not even industry experience. It's often experience specific to a single enterprise's internal functions. And having a non-executive position on your resume in that world is worse than LTU.