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- Who's talking?
- Who's listening?
- Outline of this talk
- Overview: criteria
- Each criterion: discussion
- Q & A
Who's talking?
- Product engineer
- 15 years in business
- Multiple times freelancer and employee
- Currently (freelance) head-coach at neuefische
- Add me on Xing or LinkedIn
- Who does not understand english - WTF you still here?
- Who is/will be a developer?
- What other professions?
- Who is freelancer? Who employee?
- Who is from Hamburg? Other cities?
- What do you expect? What would be helpful?
Germany ✓
Internet, digital products ✓
Development, creative ✓
big city ✓
- Hamburg ✓
- ... others ✓
- Walldorf
above junior level ✓
- learning
- pay for learning
- other employees
- short contracts
- no trust
- too expensive
product ✓ people
- developer ✓
- creative ✓
- agile-coach ✓
- people manager
- change manager
employee, but switching ✓
senior freelance ✓
employee ✓
developer ✓
product owner ✓
other freelancer
freelance: more money, self provision
employee: steady income, banks ♥ you
- 12,1 ø days sick
- >30 days expenses, no income
- retirement: > 400€ a month
- stagnation: 6 months in gold
- 19% Umsatzsteuer (turnover tax)
- max. 42% Einkommensteuer (income tax)
- put 40% away for taxes end of the year
- GKV: 14.7 + 0.7 × max. 4.537,50 €
- GKV: max. 780 € – 820 € a month
- PKV: 350 € - 650 € a month
- PKV: very expensive later
- monthly book keeping (Buchhaltung)
- monthly income tax (Einkommensteuervorauszahlung)
- retirement fund
- disguised employment (false self-employment)
- no freelancers
- hiring stop
- no nice things (chair, table, party) for freelancers
- say no to things
- work for competitor next
- not hold you liable for your creative work
- not hold you liable for their timings
- 30 days due date for payment
- booked days = payed days
- not install software or get a pc from them
- try companies ✓
- cherry pick your jobs ✓
- short, exhausting, well payed jobs ✓
- quick way out ✓
sell yourself
- confidence
- competence
- hands-on
- positive vibes
- introverts are equally searched for
- easy adjustable
- people person
- open minded
- no politics
- not part of everything
- no permanent team
- work without a team
- not always wanted
- jealous team members
- clients
- industries
- work styles
- technologies
- products
- user bases
- by law in Germany
- by picking the right jobs
- it's dangerous, be careful
- not all companies like that
- not all dogs can do that
"Fuck this, I'm out next month"
"Let me invite you, I am a freelancer"
"Winter in South Africa was nice"
Just try it ✓
Put 50% aside ✓
Let's do a project together ✓
Jeremias Erbs (jerry@badabam.de)
https://github.com/badabam/freelance-or-not
https://freelance-or-not.netlify.com/
Let's have a beer at the bar