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January 22, 2008 by Dane Carlson | 0 Comments

At first glance, you may not think rockstars and freelancers are a lot alike. However, when you look a little closer you see why freelancers are the rockstars of the business world.

1. Keep strange hours

   Rockstars – Play a show at 10pm. Party until 3am. Sleep until 3pm.

   Freelancers – Start work at 9am. Break for food / xbox / sleep from noon until 6pm. Work until 3am.

2. Make a lot of money

   Rockstars – Playing shows, selling t-shirts, selling CDs… money coming from everywhere.

   Freelancers – Charging hourly, monthly retainers, residual income… money coming from everywhere.

3. Fight The Man

   Rockstars – Any good rockstar snubs their nose at the establishment and tells them where they can stick it.

   Freelancers – Tells big corporations where they can stick their steady jobs and salaries.

4. Work for The Man

   Rockstars – Makes all their money through record labels, big music sellers and big venues.

   Freelancers – Makes all their money off big corporations.

5. Get screwed by The Man

   Rockstars – They make like 2% of all the money after everyone (label, venues, agents, etc) gets paid.

   Freelancers – Make about the same after theIRS, CPA, lawyer, etc gets paid.

6. Wear, look and smell however they want

   Rockstars – Have you met one?

   Freelancers – Have you met one?

7. Have a job that sometimes really sucks

   Rockstars – No steady location, no steady income, everybody wanting their piece of the action.

   Freelancers – No steady location, no steady income and lots of mouths to feed.

8. Take their job wherever they go

   Rockstars – Every night after a show the equipment gets packed up and they hit the road.

   Freelancers – Everyday after work the laptop and headphones gets packed and they hit the road.

9. Will tell you they’re just normal people even though they know they’re more awesome than everyone else

   Rockstars – Every night they have fans cheering and people wanting their autograph. Obviously they’re more awesome than everyone else.

   Freelancers – All their friends want to work for themselves instead of their 9 to 5. All their friends are constantly asking them advise. Obviously they’re more awesome than everyone else.

10. They are what everyone wants to be

    Rockstars – Despite what anyone says, if they got a chance to be a rockstar, they would do it.

    Freelancers – Despite what anyone says, if they got a chance to be a freelancer, they would do it.

Tim Grahl is a freelance PHP developer and Wordpress wizard. Photo by JasonRogers.

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