The fact that this week's rant topic exists is the exact reason I never do freelance work. It always ends in horror.

I don't believe good fullstack devs exist. A good junior will assess their talents/passions and specialize to become a senior. They'll keep checking the rest of the market from the corners of their eyes and start moving when necessary. But eventually, focus and specialization is a must.

If that's true for the field of development... why would I invest time in marketing, support, sales, PR, legal?

Maybe you can earn a bit more gross income in freelance work — but I see my employer as a service provider, I "hire" them so I don't have to manage phone calls, lose sleep over court cases, play product owner or worry about getting paid.

I really like the team idea behind companies so I don't have to do all the things poorly that I'm not specialised in.

I'm working in a startup and I can't wait to hire the first specialists because I simple don't have the 10 required arms with different number of fingers reuqired todo all the fields at once.

I'd never thought of an employer as a service provider to outsource all the stuff and I'm not good at. Definitely makes sense if you see this that way.

@justwellbrock @AlexDeLarge @david-arteaga

It's certainly personal, and some people will be more of a "natural" in all the social logistics, bureaucratic formfilling and conversational trickery needed to be the boss of a single person company.

You can of course outsource some of it for a small fee, even as a freelancer. Plenty of companies who run support or collect debts... a friend of mine even runs a company which just plays the product owner scrum role, per project, in between clients and freelancers.

I personally just prefer to be on a permanent contract with a fixed salary and holidays... although I do put up some fences on the borders of responsibilities, and hammer flyers to the trees with the laws of my little kingdom within the company empire.

PO has a vaguely defined project? I don't care about your deadline, go refine your ideas, in the mean time I'll watch some course videos and drink your expensive espresso.

I think there are pros and cons on both sides. And rants from both sides show me that I can have a laugh about both of them.

@AlexDeLarge @bittersweet @Divisionbyzero in fact I just realized that I like startups in the 2 - 5 years time frame because I'm somewhat my own boss then with some responsibility, I have a team and switching due to low hidden knowledge is still fairly easy while I don't have to care about e.g. sales and marketing that much.

When I get bored or annoyed I finish my project with docs and stuff and then I'm out.

@justwellbrock Are you available to author my biography 🤔

@bittersweet sorry, but I assume that you are of age 5+ 🤷‍♂️

@justwellbrock Physically and professionally I'm in my 30s, socially and emotionally I'm 3.

@bittersweet well, let's talk about the money then.