Going 1099 changes you

As a W2 employee, you exist in a sort of parent-child relationship with your employer. You do good work for your employer and in exchange, they are supposed to provide for your needs (salary, praise, training, etc.).

Once you go 1099 though, you are out on your own with no one to look out for you.

While this can be scary, it's also liberating.

If you do it for more than a few years, it's nearly impossible to go back to being a W2 because you will be a different person.

The idea of asking permission for time off will feel ridiculous.

Fighting for your boss' approval to get a small raise or bonus will seem humiliating.

Doing work that you don't want to do because someone else wants you will make you want to rebel.

So if you don't want to be changed, don't go 1099.

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