Freelance Freedom #146

Oh, yeah, this is it!

One of the reasons I am a freelancer is that I suck at office politics. I run out of patience very easily with these “ego-politics- engineering” subjects.

Freelancing is better than a job @ a company

11 years ago I stop working for the corporate world. At the time it was a hard desicion, but the satisfaction and rewards that has brought me to be a freelancer are many (just to be with my children is one). Just decide it and do it.

LOL I had this same problem at a company I worked at for a month. I couldn’t understand their stupid email policies so they “let me go”. No wonder corporations can never get any work done :/

Yeah, this comics is a nightmare, but my experience was slightly different.

Today, I spent a first work day in one of my client’s office. And guess what? It was fun! I’m still full-time freelancer and, of course, it’ll not change but it was great to experience the “employee” position.

Boss was cool, employees too, it was a great place to work and cooperate with others. I plan to go to the office for a day every week.

I recommend to everybody try something similar or find a co-working place and check it out! It worth the time to get out of your home once in a while.

This has hands-down become my favorite comic ever.

I might freelance, but there are tons of days where this is exactly what my inbox looks like. Especially when things are being approved “by committee”. Eep!

aah..
it tells my story and reason for quitting a job..
too many unnecessary processes..and no work..

This is so spot on. I don’t think I can count any more how many times at work I run through my list of ‘who to CC (and who not to CC) on my project concepts at this stage in the project’

haha nice

This is great!

The official corporate rules:

If it’s a heartfelt thank you, or a kudos for working 20 hours a day for 10 days to meet someone’s impossible deadline, you shall receive a short private email from someone saying, “thank you.”

If there is any problem whatever, even should this problem be imagined, be retroactively invented, or be the fault of the other party who brought it up in the first place, you will receive one email, cc to your boss, their boss, your coworkers, and a few other managers, about the problem. This will require everybody copied to reply, many out of sequence by several rounds, copying everybody else, until it’s a “who’s on first” chaos. By the time it is being figured out — by you and your boss, though not anybody else — that there is either (a) not a problem or (b) it is certainly not yours or at least not your doing even if it exists, you will be pleased to note that 62.7% of North America is now on the copy list. Every response will “spam” management at least 9 levels up to corporate shareholders, and your name will become synonymous in everyone’s minds to THATENDLESSHORRIDPROBLEM. The resolution, of course, will be a small email nobody notices, in their exhaustion, which might in fact be sent solely to you and a couple of original others, acknowledging that oh, ok, well I guess it wasn’t really a problem / wasn’t anything you did after all.

As long as you understand how it’s supposed to work. Approvals require the same email diligence and mass hordes of suits because everybody is personally terrified that they just might potentially find themselves in the above situation, and they require at least 17 other bodies in suits in front of them to catch the bullet, just in case that should occur.

Not that I had a bad day today or anything.

Job stops you from working in new technology and prevent your imagination.
freelencing is best.

Freelancing can be the job of tomorrow. You don’t need to be an employer of a company to earn money. You don’t need that hectic office plus you’ll spend more time with your family even if your at work.

Hi, do you know about this? The guy on the box looks familiar. http://www.start-a-web-design-business.com. Maybe copyright infringement?

This comic is so true of working in the ‘corporate’ environment. I’m so glad to have left that behind.