>Such as no job security, or severance packages, feast and famine cycles?
80% of my career before that was fixed term contracts anyway. "Job security" never really appealed as I didn't like working at one place for more than 2 years anyway.
>But on the other hand you got to be clear about the fact that it's a numbers game, where you lose some win some,
Honestly, there hasn't really been any lose. My first year I worked much less than when I had a full-time job, but earnt the same. After that, it just went up a lot.
> unless you can always aquire new work through your network, and can temper times of economical uncertainty (anyone that started only during the 2020's till today knows how fluctuating the market has been). I've had a couple multi-month downtimes when the markets where uncertain, 2020 first 6 months, 2022 during the EU energy crisis, and 2023 when companies where shedding the extra pandemic hires in drowes.
I guess. I was super busy all through 2020. Since then I've actually wound back a bit to have more free time so maybe it has just worked out well.
80% of my career before that was fixed term contracts anyway. "Job security" never really appealed as I didn't like working at one place for more than 2 years anyway.
>But on the other hand you got to be clear about the fact that it's a numbers game, where you lose some win some,
Honestly, there hasn't really been any lose. My first year I worked much less than when I had a full-time job, but earnt the same. After that, it just went up a lot.
> unless you can always aquire new work through your network, and can temper times of economical uncertainty (anyone that started only during the 2020's till today knows how fluctuating the market has been). I've had a couple multi-month downtimes when the markets where uncertain, 2020 first 6 months, 2022 during the EU energy crisis, and 2023 when companies where shedding the extra pandemic hires in drowes.
I guess. I was super busy all through 2020. Since then I've actually wound back a bit to have more free time so maybe it has just worked out well.