Loved seeing this post on Reddit: Previous Employer Contracted Me For 5x My Equivalent Salary Rate
Key excerpt:
I left this employer in 2014 when they wouldn’t give me a raise I asked for. I made sure to leave on as positive terms as possible. They reached out to me this week to see if I can help them with several websites that had become so out-dated that upgrading them and applying security fixes would be very difficult and likely to cause issues. My Freelance hourly rate is now 5x what my salary would have broken down to in terms of dollars per hour when I worked there.
They said yes without hesitation.
That’s a good reminder that your skills may be worth more as a freelancer than as an employee.
(Not that freelancing is all 🦄’s and 🌈’s. 9-to-5 has some advantages. But freelancing can be a better and more lucrative option, especially if you’re highly skilled.)
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