W-2 and Contractor or Consultant should not appear on the same sentence, it is an oxymoron. W-2 forms are given to employees, as defined by the IRS. Employees have certain rights and duties. Employers retain taxes from them and may be obliged to give them some benefits in some states or localities. Normally consultants/contractors don’t [...]
Tag Archives: Working Independently
Would Yo Do It For Free? – Because You Will
- 02
- Sep
One of the career and small business mantras I follow is that “Your business / career should be built around something you are willing to do for free“. Something so fun and rewarding to yourself that you would like to do it very often, most of your days. I can’t claim to be the creator [...]
A Door
- 20
- Aug
One of the most important things to visualize in business (or employment, where you trade your time for money) is a Door. Some mornings I even draw a door on the notebook paper I am bringing to the meeting, just to keep it as a reminder of my real Door. With Door I mean, the [...]
Starting Up : Define Ramen Noodles : Ramen Profitable
- 03
- Aug
Paul Graham coined the term Ramen Profitable, as in having enough profit to live on a Ramen Noodle diet/lifestyle. He gives many reasons why a startup may want to become Ramen Profitable as soon as possible, including: “The main significance of this type of profitability is that you’re no longer at the mercy of investors. [...]
Networking Events: Some Are Not Worth It
- 22
- Jul
The Situation: With a networking event I mean those by open invitation, where you pay a small fee for a couple of hours of chit-chat with fellow networkers and spill out your 30 second elevator speech hundreds of times while guzzling appetizers and drinking cheap wine (others describe it similarly). If you are lucky, the [...]
