Lessons from going solo
A large percentage of people I hang out with work in tech. Most of them have only ever known salaried 9-to-5 jobs. Every few months, someone asks me how I ended up doing independent consulting. These conversations have become more frequent in the last year or so. AI-driven (or at least AI-justified) layoffs have tech workers worried about job security for the first time in a while. None of the advice you’ll read below is something that I came up with on my own. Over the years I’ve come across many online discussions and personal blogs discussing this. Every once in a while you come across something that clicks for you. None of it is groundbreaking or eye-opening either. This advice has barely changed in the last couple of decades. Yet the same questions keep getting asked online and in person, because each new person leaving salaried employment believes their situation is somehow unique. It never is. So here you go. ...