Looking to pivot from being a corporate employee for 13+ years to being a contract consultant doing project management work for a friend's business for an indeterminate amount of time.

Anyone have experience going from corporate employee 9-5 to independent contractor?

Besides dealing w taxes and possibly unstable income and loss of extended benefits and corporate retirement plans, what are some other unexpected things you've had to deal with? Or any tips to deal with these differences? Tnx!!

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