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I started out charging a monthly rate that was close to my full time salary / 12. This is not a good idea because you have overhead that your employer is no longer covering - health care probably the biggest one, you don't have paid vacations, there may be unpaid downtime between contracts and also companies might not pay you.
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When I started working remote 5 years back, I was just out of college and didn't care about those things...
RIP Jack!
Anyways, I Posted the news some 20 hours ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007589
Hacker News works in mysterious ways. Or is it 'right place, right time' bull$h!t !