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title: "‘The Silent Subcontractor’"
date: 2014-01-02 11:09:02 -06:00
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- business
- freelancing
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link_url: http://alistapart.com/column/the-silent-subcontractor
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Laura Kalbag in her column on *A List Apart*:
>For the last four years I’ve had this daft rule: I don’t work with agencies.
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>Why was I doing this? I was really just attributing a few dodgy practices to all agencies—and minimizing my potential to work with great people. By a basic definition, an agency is just a collective that produces work for clients. If I worked with one more person, I could be an agency. Now I’m feeling a bit silly for discriminating for so long.
Great advice for independent contractors. Laura's perspective has definitely changed the way I look at the issue.