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  • Here here on getting the accountant to help you set up the taxes.

    that being said - if you're going on a 1099 basis, using your previous salary as a benchmark - you're shorting yourself some money. There should be a definite "bump" between what you were getting paid to be there 40 hours, and what you are now for giving up your spare time, etc.... Taxes, soft time, time off, benefits, insurance, licensing of your software - that stuff isn't free, so you better be getting compensated for having to maintain all of those things.

    You're a contractor now - it will be healthy for both you and your client to starting thinking in those terms, so don't short-sheet yourself. Really - things ARE different now, so the switch needs to be obvious to all.

    I'm doing that now - and I charge the client something in the range of 140% of what it used to be under salary.

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    Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?