Let's talk freelance life, hustles, office jobs and PAYE privilege and the systemic goodies and precarities of both. Coining the term 'ratlance' now.
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00:00 intro
04:28 FREEDOM
07:11 CASHFLOW
12:31 WORK ENVIRONMENT
20:02 PROTECTION
25:26 PAY
29:05 final thoughts

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Welcome to the SEO paragraph! I worked in the UK book publishing industry before starting my freelance career in producing, presenting, writing and YouTube. In this episode I talk about bookkeeping, balancing your income as a sole trader, the advantages of setting up as a company, employment protection as an employee V a freelancer and lots more. As someone who had a fixed job for a long time, I was only able to negotiate my salary every year or so, where as as a contractor or sole trader, I'm able to negotiate project to project. I'm also able to advocate a fairer pay for myself and the workers in my industry, where possible. On the sad side, I don't have a union (there used to be a union for YouTubers but I think it died).