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Great points.

I guess it comes down to the companies. In my personal experience at the current corporation I work at (as an IT head) is dismal.

My boss and my bosses boss take hour and a half lunch breaks, come and go whenever and basically just send things down the ladder for other people to finish.

Sure, they’re on important calls with clients and zipping up spreadsheets meanwhile they tell me to code an inline AJAX editing function for our intranet database because they think it would be ‘cool’.

I guess it’s different with every situation, but as I said before, great points and a great discussion. Hope to hear from you again, cheers.

My third remark, the emphatic disagreement, was with your statement that it’s more strenuous to work for a corporation.

The rest is obviously the blatherings of a jaded self-employed person who needs to get some shut-eye. G’night, nice talking to you.

Oh? I didn’t realize. What sort of projects?

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True, not in so many words but the implication is there.

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I couldn’t disagree more. Working for someone else is almost always less strenuous for reasons too numerous to list, not the least of which is that you are not responsible for paying the bills. As you probably know, business failures often boil down to money (mis)management.

I own a business supplying safety equipment and training to commercial and industrial clients. Annual sales are a bit under 7 mil. It’s really a micro- company. Even calling it a small business might be a bit of a stretch. The company is fifteen years old this August. It’s quite profitable. Conversely, however, also extremely difficult, stressful and I’d say it has engulfed the rest of my life. Far more so than any office/cubicle/factory/McJob I’ve ever held and there were plenty of those in my younger days. There’s just no comparison. It still requires my near-daily attention and guidance, which is not to impugn the caliber of my staff. It’s just the nature of the beast.

I respectfully disagree with many of your points but you are bang-on when you say that no one else will motivate you. You most certainly have to motivate yourself - day in and day out - if you are serious and wish to actually make a living. No question about it.

I’ve been there, and done it. I freelanced projects and started up several of my own (which I still run today) for about a year and a half (solely) before I sat back down with a corporation.

It is harder work, I won’t argue that and I never said that. I said that it is more “strenuous” to work at a corporation.

In my experience, working for myself was way less stressful.