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If you’re a freelancer or independent contractor, the #PROAct comes down to risk management. We have decent control over the risks in our business. Work hard, price right, diversify your clients/industries/skills and you’ll stay busy. 1/11
#NoPROAct #FightForFreelancers
#NoPROAct #FightForFreelancers
But there are also exogenous risks. #Freelance clients disappear for a variety of reasons, many of them beyond our control. 2/11
Over the course of 22 years, I’ve lost biz to budget cuts, bankruptcies, PMs or editors who retired or moved to different companies, and full-time people hired to do the work I was doing as a #freelancer. Stuff happens. 3/11
Sometime in the mid '90s, I had to work a tradeshow booth at the Long Beach Convention Center in SoCal.
I show up at zero-dark-thirty to set up all the crap. I am hung over & mentally preparing for 8 hours of utter boredom. 1/
#noPROAct #FightForFreelancers
I show up at zero-dark-thirty to set up all the crap. I am hung over & mentally preparing for 8 hours of utter boredom. 1/
#noPROAct #FightForFreelancers
I arrive at the front door w/ a box of magazines under my left arm, a cup of coffee in my right hand, and a 3-pound Motorola Rat Patrol cell phone on my hip that's dragging down my pants.
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As I approach the door, a surly-looking guy steps into my way with a dolly.
Me: Uh, good morning.
Surly Guy: You can't bring that in here yourself. <points at magazine box>
Me: ????
SG: Put it on the dolly. We need to take it to the loading dock.
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Me: Uh, good morning.
Surly Guy: You can't bring that in here yourself. <points at magazine box>
Me: ????
SG: Put it on the dolly. We need to take it to the loading dock.
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1/14 @TheDemocrats I am begging you to read this thread.
In 2019, when those of us who choose to earn a living as independent contractors realized your plan was to roll out ABC Test labor legislation nationwide, we thought you'd made an oversight. You started in California...
In 2019, when those of us who choose to earn a living as independent contractors realized your plan was to roll out ABC Test labor legislation nationwide, we thought you'd made an oversight. You started in California...
2/14 ... and then tried in New Jersey and New York with the same bills, which impose the 1930s ABC Test for labor law on our economy here in the year 2020.
Your message was that the law had to change because gig companies like Uber were out of control, misclassifying workers...
Your message was that the law had to change because gig companies like Uber were out of control, misclassifying workers...
3/14 ... as independent contractors when they should have been employees with benefits. People like me--who make up the 70-80% of people who consistently say we prefer IC work--figured we were accidentally caught in the crosshairs of this policy, and that you'd exempt us ...
