If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.
Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.
I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.
I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.
Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.
Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
I like working by myself.
I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.
I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur.
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