Respect: Freelance vs Full Time

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  • Peter0

    I have found that friends, or people in general, from the states on average value sole proprietorships more than elsewhere.

    Which I certainly welcome.

    Where I live now, and especially where I used to live, Joe average have a nastier habit of seeing and belittling freelancers almost to a point where it intertwines with unemployed. Despite some freelancers having a greater income, more freedom and gets to work naked if they so choose.

    But then again...who cares what a belittling Joe Average, even if as a prospective client, thinks about how you conduct your business?

    • you're right, the people who don't respect freelancers are people I rarely care about....vaxorcist
    • Perhaps it's a teen-counselor mantra on repeat, but I tend to assume that people that belittle for no apparent reason are ...Peter
    • ... troubled from elsewhere ;)Peter
    • I have no respect for anyone who hasn't either started a business or been freelance at some point or other. Very uncreastivebabaganush

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