Reply to: Contracting helps you to really know yourself

[thunderlizard]

most people's existences are made up of the 9-5 grind, and they are so caught up in this that they don't question this with any real vigour.

I think you're right. My existence is dominated by the 9-5 grind too, but at least I've always been painfully aware that it's a bizarre temporary anomaly on the anthropological scale.

[Platypus]

Now working from home since January. Completely alone.

Love it sometimes, get cabin fever sometimes.

Four years working from home, sometimes days without seeing another human being. Cabin fever - oh yes but the flexibility is excellent (late starts, late nights).

Pub tonight

[shoes]

True, contracting is not something anyone can do, and you'll either get used to it, or you'll have a psychotic episode.

permanent employment

[smiff]

Learning to contract yourself is the greatest contract of all.

[WotNxt]

"Contracting helps you to really know yourself" - in the biblical sense?

[Dow Jones]

Worrying

To think that the only 'human' contact and 'friends' some here have is through this forum - scary!
Never seen so many - what can only describe as suicidal thoughts! Some of the guys in need of a few 'happy pills'!

[DieScum]

I suppose i'm a bit of a loner/anti-social type... well not superficially. Superficially I'm very outgoing. I'm the guy who chats to everyone and strikes up conversations.

Spent the last few years on-site in "hostile territory" mostly. Ok not hostile but very much the highly paid outsider who a great deal is expected of and must deliver rather than one of the merry team. It is hard.

Now working from home since January. Completely alone.

Love it sometimes, get cabin fever sometimes.

Sometimes I'm up and about fitting in the gym, team sports, volunteering with community groups.... sometimes I can't be bothered for days on end and just quit human contact.

I think you need balance... and I'm not great at balance!

[Kinvara]

That I am a P-O-R-N addict. When I spent a year working from home coding i was spending 3-4 hours a day surfing filth. It's so addictive. And I had a girlfriend at the same time too. At least when working in an office, this is not an issue.

I am sure there are many one-handed typists here.

[aussielong]

What I learned

That I am a P-O-R-N addict. When I spent a year working from home coding i was spending 3-4 hours a day surfing filth. It's so addictive. And I had a girlfriend at the same time too. At least when working in an office, this is not an issue.

[Xenophon]

Do you want to be plugged back in to the matrix?

[miffy]

who's he?

linky

Check out the cashflow quadrant

[ratewhore]

You are Robert Kiyosaki and I claim my crisp fiver!

who's he?

[oracleslave]

I have to concur with the OP. Ask yourself this; will you be telling your children as they grow up that they need to get their qualifications, go to uni, join a corporate and then scale the corporate ladder? Or will you be trying to instil a sense of their own purpose and value, spreading their wings to find what it is they really want to do with their life and then go and chase it?

It's only really contracting that has given me that outlook...

You are Robert Kiyosaki and I claim my crisp fiver!

[realityhack]

I have to concur with the OP. Ask yourself this; will you be telling your children as they grow up that they need to get their qualifications, go to uni, join a corporate and then scale the corporate ladder? Or will you be trying to instil a sense of their own purpose and value, spreading their wings to find what it is they really want to do with their life and then go and chase it?

It's only really contracting that has given me that outlook...

[ratewhore]

I have to concur with the OP. Ask yourself this; will you be telling your children as they grow up that they need to get their qualifications, go to uni, join a corporate and then scale the corporate ladder? Or will you be trying to instil a sense of their own purpose and value, spreading their wings to find what it is they really want to do with their life and then go and chase it?

It's only really contracting that has given me that outlook...