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[–]thefirststoneThat's my purse! I don't know you! 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (18 children)

Just start your own company, and employ fewer than 100 people. These sorts of size-based tricks are common in parts of Europe to avoid their onerous taxes and regulations, which would bankrupt smaller companies.

Don't be afraid to work as a contractor!

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (16 children)

Don't be afraid to work as a contractor!

Soon you will lose your contractors license if you don't have a vaccination card.

[–]thefirststoneThat's my purse! I don't know you! 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (15 children)

Not a general contractor, which requires licensing in some places. A contract worker, who works on a per-task or per-project basis alongside regular employees. It's very common in oil and gas, for instance, as they can or can't afford to hire so many people.

Though this wouldn't work in all places. California, for instance, fucked with contract work by making anybody who works a certain extent be considered actual employees, which adds back all the bullshit regulatory overhead the employee was trying to avoid. I don't know whether "consultant" type of self-employment gets around that.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Realistically, it should. I'm assuming you're talking about 1099 workers though. They're not employed by the company, just hired out. I don't believe that the rules could apply, since they're not paying employer taxes.

[–]Ponderer 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gotcha, I've heard this called an "independent contractor"

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

They already said all govt contractors have to get the vaxx. I think that will be the same for corporate contractors.

Do you know any oil and gas companies that hire contractors with very few skills? I have a fancy degree, but no legit skills.

[–]thefirststoneThat's my purse! I don't know you! 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

I don't know any. But the mandate may not apply to corporate contractors. It probably depends on state law, because they're usually exempt from technical and tax-related crap regular employment brings, like health insurance (which means the contractor doesn't have to switch providers when he's laid off).

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

probably depends on state law,

State law and the hiring corporations dedication to pushing the vaxx. Some corporations will just mandate it themselves for contractors, just like how they push wokness.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

I guess i will just have to learn to code.

[–]PastorJohnny 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

omg, is this the wrong time to do that.. all of the good paying coding jobs are but a fading memory from the past.. microsoft sends all of its work to india.. there are subcontractor programming job websites where people fight over fifty dollar per day programming jobs..

hey, why dont you learn perl or python, lol..

i have been coding C for thirty years now, and the market is dead.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I am learning Python. Is that a good idea?

[–]PastorJohnny 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

python has a very large userbase.. i understand that they use python for teaching purposes at the university level.. a large userbase means that there is a lot of code and it has a lot of eyes debugging python..

on google, they say that python takes approx thirty times as long to execute as does C language, but for most purposes python is plenty fast..

programming python, you would probably end up finding work a lot faster than as a C programmer.

i like C because i enjoy programming microcontrollers, and actually my preference there is to use assembler.

i dont know what level you are at, but maybe you might enjoy looking at the microchip company's curiosity development boards..

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/development-tools-tools-and-software/development-boards-and-hardware/curiosity-boards

and i definitely encourage you to look at the adafruit line of arduino products:

https://www.adafruit.com/category/17

if you want to look at an extremely underrated microcontroller, take a look at the parallax propeller:

https://www.parallax.com/propeller/

if you learn C, i suggest that you give a serious look at the CodeBlocks IDE: https://www.codeblocks.org/

i do not personally use the ide portion of codeblocks, but instead i use the gcc C compiler that works at the dos prompt of windows 10.

btw, my first computer was purchased from a pawn shop in 1983.. it sat there in two milk crates.. i paid fifty bucks for it.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=atari+800

happy coding.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Learn rust old cow

[–]PastorJohnny 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

no, i am working on a trading project.. note to self: c language is the best, fk rust.

https://files.catbox.moe/j9y2sz.m4a

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

What is the outlook for python. Thats what I am learning.

[–]Ponderer 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I like your positive attitude. I'm going to make a post about this.