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Poll: If you were offered a well-paid position in-house, would you drop freelancing?
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Joohee Kim
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South Korea
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done that Jan 11, 2018

Well, I've done that. After finishing the in-house project, I thought 'Wow I SHOULD NOT have dropped freelancing.'
 
Mario Freitas
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Brazil
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No Jan 12, 2018

I worked in-house for 20 years, 15 of which very well paid for local standards. I make twice as much as a freelancer as my best salary in-house. So, in order to go through all the suffering of an in-house job, it would have to pay me NET more than I earn as a freelancer, and that does not exsist in my areas of expertise and in my country.
Now, if the offer is to work in Europe or North-America, I would surely consider it.
 
Diana Obermeyer
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United Kingdom
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absolutely not Jan 18, 2018

Not because I'm against in-house work as such, but because it just doesn't mesh with my lifestyle choices.

I live for the great outdoors, and getting "out there" on the weekends will never cut it for me. I need to live in those remote and underpopulated places. There is no such thing as an in-house job in those locations, nevermind an in-house job tailored to my preferred fields.
 
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