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If you’re a freelancer or independent contractor, the #PROAct comes down to risk management. We have decent control over the risks in our business. Work hard, price right, diversify your clients/industries/skills and you’ll stay busy. 1/11
#NoPROAct #FightForFreelancers
#NoPROAct #FightForFreelancers
But there are also exogenous risks. #Freelance clients disappear for a variety of reasons, many of them beyond our control. 2/11
Over the course of 22 years, I’ve lost biz to budget cuts, bankruptcies, PMs or editors who retired or moved to different companies, and full-time people hired to do the work I was doing as a #freelancer. Stuff happens. 3/11
Sometime in the mid '90s, I had to work a tradeshow booth at the Long Beach Convention Center in SoCal.
I show up at zero-dark-thirty to set up all the crap. I am hung over & mentally preparing for 8 hours of utter boredom. 1/
#noPROAct #FightForFreelancers
I show up at zero-dark-thirty to set up all the crap. I am hung over & mentally preparing for 8 hours of utter boredom. 1/
#noPROAct #FightForFreelancers
I arrive at the front door w/ a box of magazines under my left arm, a cup of coffee in my right hand, and a 3-pound Motorola Rat Patrol cell phone on my hip that's dragging down my pants.
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As I approach the door, a surly-looking guy steps into my way with a dolly.
Me: Uh, good morning.
Surly Guy: You can't bring that in here yourself. <points at magazine box>
Me: ????
SG: Put it on the dolly. We need to take it to the loading dock.
3/
Me: Uh, good morning.
Surly Guy: You can't bring that in here yourself. <points at magazine box>
Me: ????
SG: Put it on the dolly. We need to take it to the loading dock.
3/
i don't get stressed easily but this is causing me so much stress.😭 the PRO act threatens people like myself who want to be full-time freelancers. i chose this path because i wanted more freedom in my life. i don't want that taken away! #FightForFreelancers #noproact #freelancer
i really hope the PRO act either doesn't pass or is amended. i'm so upset and scared right now. i don't want to be an employee. i am trying to move away from that. i chose to be independent. #FightForFreelancers #noproact #freelancer #freelancers #proact thehill.com/opinion/financ…
here is more info about how the PRO act hurts freelancers like me. does anyone care about people who WANT to freelance? we chose this! why aren't more people talking about this?! orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-… #FightForFreelancers #noproact #freelancer #freelancers #proact
Hi! 👋This 👉is a THREAD about how the #PROAct will negatively affect tens of millions of US freelancers, but it's also about how freelancing was more than choice for me. It was what I wanted from the start of my career. 1/
Seriously, I ALWAYS wanted to freelance. The year after I graduated from college and moved to NYC, I took a class at NYU Continuing Ed on "How to Get Started in Freelance Writing." The year after, I sold an article to a local newspaper for a whopping $75. I was thrilled! 2/😃
It's true that I did end up getting my real start in journalism at staff editorial positions, and I was VERY grateful 4 those jobs. But I NEVER stopped freelancing on the side. Honestly, it probably got me fired from 1 staff job. I just couldn't keep myself from a side hustle! 3/
1/4 Huh.
My cell rang about an hour ago. It was a recorded message from my congressman, @RepMalinowski, asking if I wanted to be on a live forum right now and ask him a question.
You bet I did.
I told the screener that my question was about @RepMalinowski co-sponsoring ...
My cell rang about an hour ago. It was a recorded message from my congressman, @RepMalinowski, asking if I wanted to be on a live forum right now and ask him a question.
You bet I did.
I told the screener that my question was about @RepMalinowski co-sponsoring ...
2/4 ... the #PROAct, even though for more than a year, I've explained to him the problem with the ABC Test in it, and how just as happened to independent contractors in California when it was tried there, this ABC Test will outlaw careers like mine.
The call screener said ...
The call screener said ...
3/4 ... he was an IC too, and hadn't heard about the #PROAct, but was going to make sure to look into it now.
I was then put on hold for the full hour. The congressman never took my question.
Although, I did hear him yell "No!" twice when he appeared to believe he was muted...
I was then put on hold for the full hour. The congressman never took my question.
Although, I did hear him yell "No!" twice when he appeared to believe he was muted...
1/4 There is a disconnect in the @nytimes with reporting on PPP loans and reporting on the #PROAct.
This story on PPP states, "The adjustments are intended to increase aid to the very smallest businesses, many of which are run by women, Black people ...
nytimes.com/2021/02/22/bus…
This story on PPP states, "The adjustments are intended to increase aid to the very smallest businesses, many of which are run by women, Black people ...
nytimes.com/2021/02/22/bus…
2/4 ... and members of other minority groups." It also quotes @POTUS: “Getting our economy back means bringing our small businesses back." The changes “will bring much-needed, long overdue help to small businesses who really need help" ...
If you are one of those people in the other 49 states who have taken up freelancing, know that the #PROAct is seeking to rob this new avenue from you.
Don't believe your Congress Rep, who probably voted for it in the House; or any person aligned with Labor or lobbying, including your Chamber of Commerce. The #PROAct will kill Right to Work, and force you into collective bargaining. It wants to dictate how you do your work.
There are forces in ivory tower academia, government, and Labor that want to see the independent contractor model GONE. Now that you have discovered this newfound earning freedom, don't let them take it away. Tell your Senator #NOProAct, and vote accordingly.
