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- whatthefunk
has anyone who works for a company or agency full time ever attempted to pitch your company to do side work? Can those lines ever be blurred, could I propose making a micro site, or make one and attempt to sell it to my full time company?
Can an employee even invoice his/her employer from his/her own llc - is that legal? Having worked for agencies and in house I always see unsolicited pitches coming through and wonder to myself - I'd like to take that on but due to my workload and responsibilities I can't even suggest it but I could do it in 4 weeks working nights and maybe a weekend or two.
Could this and does this ever happen in agencies behind closed doors? I'm familiar with people leaving and doing some extra side work but why not while you're there?
- JSK0
Conflict of interest.
You may have influence over who gets the business or approval. In addition, your company can argue that you took ideas, resources, and others from your full time job to benefit your self.
You should read your none compete contract carefully. That is why some companies ask you if you are have any ownership or have shares in companies just in case there is a conflict of interest.
- d_rek0
Depends largely on the type of relationship you have with your employer.
I would say in almost 99.9% of cases the answer would be a firm No for exactly the reason JSK stated above.
However, I have had my current employer throw me contract work because the budget a client was dealing with did not make sense for the studio to take on. As a contract project I made a decent chunk of change off the client and my employer didn't mind throwing me the work.
- I should note that the business was non-repeat - meaning one-off project for clients with smaller budgetsd_rek
- They paid you in change? That doesn't sound very decent.abettertomorrow
- gabe0
it never hurts to ask...i suggest you create opportunities for yourself whenever you can.
bonus points if you can figure out a way to make it win-win for you and your employer.
- Ancillary0
Because if you're doing it while you're there it's called overtime, and most companies just expect you to do OT without being paid
- NickInfozure0
If it wouldn't be worth doing the job financially for your company and you could do it in your own time then there is nothing wrong with it. If they have a small budget then why throw away your opportunity if your company has to reject the job.
- maikel0
If the company you work for is dodgy enough you can get away with it.
Also, if you are non-executive director (meaning by that, you created the company, you have shares but your business partners are the ones who do the work) it can work.
More likely that not, you boss will see that as shady, anyway.
I could only get away with those arrangements working for companies that were a lot in 'grey areas' or when I had to bring skills that nor myself or my in-house team had.