Title: I&#x27;m trying to break into freelancing&#x2F;consulting&#x2F;contracting.<p>Following best advice on the net&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;etc I&#x27;m contacting my past companies plus some new ones and all of them tell me the same exact story.<p>&quot;No. We cannot hire freelancers directly. You must go through a third company (consulting firm&#x2F;body shop) which we work with.&quot;<p>But why the heck would I even consider doing that? The whole point of freelancing (at least IMO) is being _free_ from the middlemen.<p>Anyway, humoring the idea of actually doing that I contacted one of these middlemen companies and was sent a hideous contract full of terms that -let&#x27;s put it mildly- are not in my favor. (Liabilities fully on me, limitations on where I can go afterwards, Information asymmetry, need to support for long after project finish, etc).<p>So the question remains - is there any real freelancing still on? (I&#x27;m not talking platforms here - I wouldn&#x27;t go there for several reasons).<p>Could it be that the specific market I&#x27;ve been looking at (UK&#x2F;IE) is skewed like that and other markets are in better shape?<p>Thanks
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