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The only way I'd ever make it past the "ballpark figure" requirement is by working in finance in London, which I don't really want to do. I mostly work for les
by Joeboy 12y ago
The only way I'd ever make it past the "ballpark figure" requirement is by working in finance in London, which I don't really want to do.
I mostly work for less than that, deliberately work maybe 50% of the time, and consider myself embarrassingly well off compared to most of my peers. I don't think my plumber friend earns as much as I do, but I'm not bothered by the idea that he might.
I am down with the idea that we should avoid racing to the bottom, I don't think "union" is a dirty word, and maybe there's even some kind of argument that I have an ethical responsibility to work full time even though I don't want to. But from where I stand this piece seems a little divorced from (my) reality.
Maybe it's something to do with being called Joe.
- dasmoth 12y agoI don't understand the idea of "...an ethical responsibility to work full time" at all. Why shouldn't the amount of labour you want to sell be open to negotiation? The fact that it's relatively hard to find "normal jobs" in my field in formats other than full time is one of the factors that makes me seriously consider the jump to freelancing.
- BSousa 12y agoI'm probably in the same place as you. Had very great offers (and I mean really great ones) in London for working in finance. I ended up contracting/freelancing instead for a nice company that still pays me decent money (less than half of the London one) and is actually doing something I believe in and, as you, makes me better off compared to my peers, but also allows me to live in an amazing place and have a much better quality of life.
- walshemj 12y ago£70 an hour is a £560 day rate which is a tad high but 450 for generic programming is quite achievable out side of finance of course its hard to avoid getting caught in the IR35 trap.