Freelance vs $120k?
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to the detractors...I've been running my business for over a decade now, never could work for 'the man' for more than a few months after grad school and started my own thing (a la 2000 recession).
BUT it is always up and down. You never, ever know what it will be like the next month, let alone the next year.
BIG DEAL - paid vacations/sick leave and healthcare. Sure, you can take time off whenever you want working for yourself, but not only do you not get paid, you lose money that you could have made.
STABILITY - this doesn't mean that you can't lose your job, that can happen in a blink of an eye (I know from experience here, again, 2000), BUT you do know what you will make next month, the month after, if you don't get fired. Freelance you never will know, not for sure.
GOOD - this uncertainty goes both ways, one month you could make nothing, next month you could make 10 times the amount. That's exciting and frustrating.
BAD - there is just no certainty. I suppose it is all relative. If this buy was aiming for 40k I'd say, shit, that's not much, just go have fun and make your own hours, but 120k is a decent amount of money. If you can get that with "some" certainty, that's a pretty big deal. Obviously there are a lot of factors we don't know "Premium Brand" is that Doritos or Prada? Colgate or Porsche?That's my 2 cents. Again, if it were a small amount of cash, it'd be a different discussion.