28th March 2008, 02:34 PM
Dont forget all the other benefits employed people get such as training, conference costs, IFA membership, pay rises, holiday pay for bank holidays, generous expenses and mileage allowances. Dont forget all the things you have to buy!
Then there is the time spent doing invoices, accounts, tax returns, and VAT.
If you employ people then there is huge increase in the amount of none productive time.
As for the notion of "you can pick and choose your jobs and who you work with and you decide what rate you charge." you must be having a laugh and all all of these things are ourside of your control.
I have to yet to turn down a piece of work and I never get the amount to charge right. You have to be cheap enough to get the work but expensive enough to make a decent living. It is a very complex dynamic.
Dr Peter
(who simply could not go back to being employed, dealing with office politics and similar)
Then there is the time spent doing invoices, accounts, tax returns, and VAT.
If you employ people then there is huge increase in the amount of none productive time.
As for the notion of "you can pick and choose your jobs and who you work with and you decide what rate you charge." you must be having a laugh and all all of these things are ourside of your control.
I have to yet to turn down a piece of work and I never get the amount to charge right. You have to be cheap enough to get the work but expensive enough to make a decent living. It is a very complex dynamic.
Dr Peter
(who simply could not go back to being employed, dealing with office politics and similar)