Public Address | Cafe | Cracker: It's (self-employed) Business Time

Kim Griggs

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:04:12 +1300

Just a quick spruik for the national freelancers' conference

www.freelance2008.co.nz

Keith Ng

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:16:15 +1300

Oh Che, all that disposable income and soon-to-be-debt-free lifestyle is bound to make you soft! Soft, I tell you!

(Hey, I've got to justify being poor somehow, and I think virtue ethics is the easier way to go here.)

linger

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:47:45 +1300

@keith: surely that's "salaries are for purses"?

Che Tibby

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:40:31 +1300

@ keith, meeeoooowwww.

(that's the sound of my rapidly shrinking student loan. some days it just purrs).

InternationalObserver

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:53:05 +1300

Thanks for the Fry link, I wanted to watch it when it aired but recorded the other channel instead. Shall we start a Pool to see how long before you get hired by TV3? Maybe they could ditch the two aussie reporters on the NZ staff and get you instead?…

John

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:03:08 +1300

Yes, but you haven't said if you are going to still let us peek into your private life and thoughts and find out if 'sex in the city' feline style is alive.
All the best for your free-lance venture.

Evan Yates

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:46:08 +1300

Meeeoww!

(dammit!)

Keith Ng

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:24:15 +1300

And salaries are for pussies.

Keith Ng

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:23:40 +1300

Being freelance –as far as parents are concerned at least– is clearly synonymous with "job seeker".

Welcome to the club, Damian. It took three years of not starving to demonstrate to my parents that I am, in fact, not unemployed. However, they probably just assume that I'm dealing drugs now,…

Stephen Judd

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:10:55 +1300

The footage of Colin Fry repeatedly trying and failing to guess something of relevance gladdened my bitter skeptic's soul.

Kyle Matthews

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:53:31 +1300

Buskers Festival in Chch is very good. I think the whole city is a swamp, but it has a special place in my heart because just occasionally I manage to make it to the festival. It's really world class.

andrew llewellyn

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:27:26 +1300

Lose the "freelance" term D, tell people you've gone "ronin".

Plant lots of catnip.

Kim Wilson

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:54:34 +1300

All the very best with the freelancing! (And good luck with the tabby/birman thing too...)

Public Address

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:54:34 +1300

Discussion from blog post.