Re: [asterisk-biz] How to live in this world without job

Well put.  The other side of the coin, repeatedly demonstrated at every economic downturn, is that the security benefits of full-time employment relationships can be over-rated.

Of course, you implied this in your "anything else" clause...

Alex Balashov wrote:

 I would, however, throw in a cautionary note whose general effect is  that freelance consulting as a full-time professional endeavour is  governed by the same laws of economics and marketplace realities as any  other business endeavour.  So, I think my concern is with universalising  this path or suggesting that it is for everyone or even for most people.    Being on your own as a contractor isn't going to bring automatic  money, prosperity, or even survival any more than anything else is  automatic.  As a successful freelancer, I am confident you already know this very  intimately.  But I think it's important that people thinking about doing  it understand this.  Most of what can be said about the sustainability of this approach can  be summed up as:  "There's a difference between a [successful] business  model and 'doing work for money.'"  People in the latter category generally end up feeling like they have  the worst of all worlds - no security, working twice (or more) as much  for half (or less) the money, and 8 different bosses (clients).  If you  end up in this situation, the "emancipatory" feelings of "escaping" the  "slavery of the 21st century" (the 9 to 5) can evaporate faster than you  can say "I'd be making more on the unemployment dole."