Though Catherine Price's self-employment service piece offers helpful insights—my comments—perhaps Salon eds. should exercise a heavier hand. I appreciate personality in a lede, but reject the author’s characterization of the self-employed. The coffee-shop-cool-freelancer-with-cubicle-disdain notion belies the reality of self-employment.
Under that characterization, my resume appears both unattractive, to prospective staff employers who assume freelancers are alike, and attractive, to agencies searching for mercenaries.
Looking ahead at working 40–50 years, I see employment as a one-assignment-at-a-time evolution of my skills and my self. In this projection a staff job, cubicle or no, and self-employment receive equal measure. In either case, I work in clothes, not pajamas.
Related gripes: I enjoy my local, hipster cafe, but I could never bring my office there—they charge for wireless—let alone concentrate if I tried.
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