rastahomie
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- Joined
- Mar 5, 2010
I'm one of a handful of Community Board participants who doesn't work a traditional Nine-to-Five. I am self-employed, meaning that my boss is a demanding jerk who expects nothing short of perfection, and my one employee is a pot-smoking layabout who tries to half-[butt] as much as he can get away with. My boss and my employee are one in the same: me.
I'm a professional writer. Mostly I write celebrity trash stories about whatever the Duggars or Roloffs or other C-list reality TV people are up to. The publication I write for the most seems to favor that kind of story, so that's what I write. I'd love to write Pulitzer-caliber stories about important issues that matter, but my readers want celebrity trash instead, so that's what I give them. I'll cry all the way to the bank.
Some weeks I'm rich, most weeks I'm broke, it all depends on how many readers I get.
Being self-employed has been one of the best things that's ever happened to me! I love being able to work in my pajamas and set my own hours. Further, I don't have the temperament for working with others, so being 100 percent on my own has been a huge boon for me.
On the downside, my entire world consists of my workspace in my spare bedroom. I don't get to leave the house for eight hours each day and interact with other adults. That's a huge chunk of the American way of life that I'm missing out on. Also, there's no such thing as vacation or sick days; I either work or I don't make money, end of story.
What do you other self-employed people around here do to make ends meet?
I'm a professional writer. Mostly I write celebrity trash stories about whatever the Duggars or Roloffs or other C-list reality TV people are up to. The publication I write for the most seems to favor that kind of story, so that's what I write. I'd love to write Pulitzer-caliber stories about important issues that matter, but my readers want celebrity trash instead, so that's what I give them. I'll cry all the way to the bank.
Some weeks I'm rich, most weeks I'm broke, it all depends on how many readers I get.
Being self-employed has been one of the best things that's ever happened to me! I love being able to work in my pajamas and set my own hours. Further, I don't have the temperament for working with others, so being 100 percent on my own has been a huge boon for me.
On the downside, my entire world consists of my workspace in my spare bedroom. I don't get to leave the house for eight hours each day and interact with other adults. That's a huge chunk of the American way of life that I'm missing out on. Also, there's no such thing as vacation or sick days; I either work or I don't make money, end of story.
What do you other self-employed people around here do to make ends meet?