Going Solo, Successfully
Get a lawyer, review contracts, hire an accountant, register as a company...is this really better than working a regular 9-5?<p>Sounds like the OP spends just as much time (if not more) doing paperwork, meetings, phone calls and other assorted meta-work as programmers in Big Tech Co, if not more.<p>Corporate America can be a drag, I get it. Annual reviews, backstabbing office politics, the wrong people get promoted, loud open offices full of clowns that prevent you from concentrating but from this write-up it doesn&#x27;t sound like going solo is any hassle-free Shangrila, either.<p>For a certain class of people they like the &quot;freedom&quot; and hey, more power to you. By all means, enjoy the IC life. But I&#x27;d just as soon move to a different company if I&#x27;m unhappy at my job and not deal with this Kafkaesque amount of paperwork of being an independent consultant.