I'm a freelancer and too have wondered why every one else isn't.
I think part of the reason is that freelancers actually do the work; they write a proposal, and then three months later people check what they produced.
So called "white collar" employees, for the most part and in my experience, pretty much sit around doing, well, nothing. They go to meetings, talk on the phone and check out the work produced by various contractors, consultants and trainees, drink gallons of coffee, and that's pretty much it.
This is of course a generalization; people who have physical jobs (moving things or making them) are in a different category, as well as people whose output is somehow monitored, etc.
But in many many big companies there are swathes of people who would be hard pressed to account for any of their day.
And they still get paid, and they still have a job, and they still have colleagues. That's something.
I think part of the reason is that freelancers actually do the work; they write a proposal, and then three months later people check what they produced.
So called "white collar" employees, for the most part and in my experience, pretty much sit around doing, well, nothing. They go to meetings, talk on the phone and check out the work produced by various contractors, consultants and trainees, drink gallons of coffee, and that's pretty much it.
This is of course a generalization; people who have physical jobs (moving things or making them) are in a different category, as well as people whose output is somehow monitored, etc.
But in many many big companies there are swathes of people who would be hard pressed to account for any of their day.
And they still get paid, and they still have a job, and they still have colleagues. That's something.