Business idea — an Upwork/Fivver but for white collar jobs, specially consulting and managed services. Instead of all of us working for B4/MBB/Etc. You have a chance to freelance and freedom to work anywhere/anytime. Basically high paying gig economy jobs.

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You can always be an independent contractor. This is extremely common in the UK/Europe where labour laws make it advantageous to be independent but less common in the US.

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There are a ton of them out there already as well. May want to do some research into them and figure out what makes you different

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Haven’t actually seen these. Thanks!

Of course, you have to pay part of your fees to the provider and their shareholders and you pay more of your fees for them to provide you with tech, HR, office space, projects to work on, etc…

Isn’t this just a consulting firm?

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How much money are we talking?

Depends on the lift. 10-15k for the two weeks if I can slide it in around my day job.

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Youre looking at this from the freelancer’s point of view only. Clients (consultancies) have super niche projects with high stakes, and therefore need people who have proven themselves that they can staff. This white collar gig-economy as you call it already exists, but its all relationship based and/or goes through recruiters. Because this way clients dont need to take a risk on people and they can also get them quickly. A website post can take days before relevant people apply and are screened. I cant see a website ever the current model effectively.

Source: Im a freelancing consultant

This is super helpful!

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