Freelance or Employee?
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- e-wo
I've been happily, if not always lucratively, freelancing for the last few years. I work about 1/2 - 3/4 time on design, and the rest on music, so design is not my highest passion, but I like it plenty.
A local company - whose projects I've worked on extensively over the last 4 months - is interested in bringing me on board as an employee. This would mean:
— Holding regular hours (anywhere I want between 20 - 40).
— Some days remote, some days in-office.
— Nice people, but I'd be working on a very outdated CMS with no big future.
— Likely being strongly negotiated into lowering my hourly rate a lot from what I make now as a freelancer.I'm also a lazy fuck, and feel like I don't hustle hard enough in finding new work for myself. Anyone have thoughts or resources for someone trying to decide between between the variables of freedom, income stability, and satisfying projects?
- doesnotexist0
what's your gut tell you? are you ok with always doing what you're told even though you might think they're stupid? do you really want to work for someone else or for yourself?
- deathboy0
Think u have your answer in your first sentence.
- bainbridge0
They want to hire you to pay you less?
But they like you and you like them?- a bit less pay for good benefits and a safe workplace would be ok with memekk
- formed0
"I'm also a lazy fuck". I think that sums it up. Take the consistency and put more thought into your music (assuming you get paid for that, if not, scratch that idea).
Benefits and a 401k for 20 hours (the latter really doesn't mean a thing unless it is matched...I've not heard of a company matching in a long, long time)
- randommail0
e-wo, you should determine whether the "offer" is also an implication.
If you don't say accept the regular hours with a lower rate, then will they continue looking for someone else who will?
Personally, I think it's pretty clear. They will try at least to find someone, while of course are hoping it ends up being you.
- e-wo0
randommail,
It's a middle manager, not the bossman, who wants me to become an employee. I talked to him more about it — he's worried about someone unqualified ending up at the desk he'll collaborate with, and he's looking to use my proposal as bargaining power to get paid better himself.In short, I'm seeing less and less in this for myself, so I bowed out of considering it, and let him know I just want to continue in my current arrangement.
Thanks for the perspective, folks. Time to get less lazy.