Arrr ! Eye Knew it ! Wired Says you Freelancers be Swashbuckling Buccaneers !

[cbelt3]

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/pl...n_pirates/
"Yet we still love the idea of pirates—those braid-bearded, rum-reeking, vengeance-seeking, lovable scallywags. How often do we see them depicted in popular culture as anything but awesome? As Steve Jobs said, why join the Navy if you can be a pirate? Seriously."

Ahoy !

[MacArtist]

I don't feel like a pirate.

No dreams of treasure chests spilling over with dubloons.

Just the hope of paying this month's bills and having a little left over.

[DP]

MacArtist wrote:
I don't feel like a pirate.

No dreams of treasure chests spilling over with dubloons.

Just the hope of paying this month's bills and having a little left over.

:agree:

[OWC Jamie]

Maybe they can sail to Washington and get some of our loot back.

[bazookaman]

DP wrote:
[quote=MacArtist]
I don't feel like a pirate.

No dreams of treasure chests spilling over with dubloons.

Just the hope of paying this month's bills and having a little left over.

:agree:
me too...except for the having a little left over. I can't seem to make that happen.

[Seacrest]

Counterpoint

[Uncle Wig]

Written by someone who's never been a freelancer. (What a load!)

[jdc]

That "little left over" is what the IRS wants.

[SteveO]

Nineteen years now and I've never looked back. Arrrrr! Where's my check, you said it mailed last week!?

[ka jowct]

I'm happy to not be mired in an office job, but I certainly wouldn't romanticize it. I worked 360 days out of 365 for the past two years, and probably the the year before that, for quite a bit less money and lousy health insurance.