Going 1099 as the first step
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When I first went 1099, I applied to grad school thinking I'd use the extra money I would save to fund my living expenses if I got in.
Well, I never got into grad school, and then I ended up doing the 1099 thing for a long time.
The thing is, my goal was to never become a 1099 for its own sake. It was to buy myself more time and resources to go to grad school and do what I wanted to do.
The former is no longer a goal, but the latter still is.
Going 1099 is a stepping stone to do something else.
If you think about it as a first step to doing something else, you can view it more lightly and not put so much pressure on it to fix everything about your life.
As they say in one of my favorite shows "Halt and Catch Fire," it's not the thing, it's the thing that gets you to the thing.
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