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I disagree- and stand by what I say.

Even if you have the skills, there is still the matter of the Governments regulations with regard to taxation, accounts requirements etc.

If you follow the rules it is extra effort compared to being an employee. OK you might try and buck the system but if you are making any reasonable sort of money, either HMRC will eventually find you, or someone will turn you in.

Maybe a competitor, maybe a disgruntled customer…

When this happens this of course increases the stress.

Its Not insurmountable, but still a lot of extra work for younger people or those who don’t have the right backing/guidance at the start.

Yes you can blame the Govt but this isn’t Zimbabwe or Afghanistan and these governments were voted in by the will of at least half of the people in this country.

Apart from this you have to constalty chase for both new business and payments from customers. You can have all the intelligence, drive and balls in the world and still your business can fuck up and you are back on the scrap heap.

The market just works like that sometimes.

OK this can happen as an employee but larger business still provide a safety net.

Many “self employed” people depend on larger businesses for their client base anyway. They all have their place in the economy.

And if self-employment is so spiritually fulfilling, why do you spend so much of your time in anger and argument? It as if you are taking out stress in your life caused by your own actions on a bunch of people you’ve never even met just to make yourself feel “better”. you are perhaps no better than the “soul sucking corporates” you claim to despite.

If self employment (or even smaller businesses run under less “soul sucking” lines) was so easy, why are not more people doing it?

Yes, even back in the 1980s as a youth/teenager, writing computer software, and also in the private security industry as an investigator and manufacturer of electronic surveillance equipment (and this was when I was only in my teens/early 20s).

I don’t claim to be an expert on anything, nor self-important – merely stating the facts as I see them.

I simply make my assumptions by the way you conduct yourself on this forum – for all your intelligence you seem to have a lot of bitterness – constantly looking for agruments and disagreements on a forum which whilst it has in depth discussion is not normally like that

I expect you don’t behave like this in front of clients / potential clients (but you would like to), so hence you are taking out your anger on other people. I’ve also noticed this behaviour in a lot of so-called “IT consultants/freelancers” when working in larger companies.

Its not our fucking fault you done way too much MDMA or whatever and burned out and can no longer be friendly to people – or are just like that anyway.

I don’t care what skills you have or how well you are doing with self-employment – you behave on here in a dysfunctional manner and are not exactly a good advert for your trade (whatever it is).

No, I don’t know you – but every post anyone makes on a public forum – even the throwaway lines or “jokes” gives away something about them and their personalities…