If you ever want to be talked about similar to a prostitute, I’d suggest that person to be work as a freelancer for an event management company.
You’ll be referred to as a price tag and called upon based on availability and need!
As much as there is a downside… which, mind you, is way stronger than the up side can ever be… there happens to be a few good ups to being a freelancer as well! Let me get into the details of it in a while.
I’m writing this whilst working at an event in the Go Dolphin Ballroom of Emirates Towers. The entrance roof is made of glass… can you even begin to imagine what an idiot must the architect have been to make a glass roof in Dubai? And an even bigger idiot is the man who approved the glass finishing!
As much as its pretty, did they just conveniently forget that Dubai is, in reality, a desert?
Oh well, I’ll just mark that one as one of the downs of working as a freelancer!
Now to really sell off the up side of working as a freelancer… hmmm… lets see…
1 You get a paid a little more than normal 9-6 jobs.
2 You don’t really have a direct boss and don’t have to worry too much about deliverables.
3 You don’t have to pretend to like your colleagues, as they change with every event.
4 If you don’t like your boss, well, you are never forced to see him regularly and have to only bear him for a mere few hours (as long as the event lasts, at times just a couple of days… better than a whole year though!)
5 You need not maintain client relationships; they anyways don’t really know you.
6 Its upto you whether or not you want to work on a particular day / weekend.
Now the downs… unfortunately, this list is fucking long… well, at least it’ll increase my character count this way. Here goes nothing…
Well, this is the first thing that bothers me… no medical insurance
1 No annual ticket
2 No bonuses
3 No increment
4 No financial guarantee
5 No contract, therefore, no legal claim
6 No paid leave
7 No housing or transport allowance
8 The money is always late, screws up the bank account history as no regular cash flow
9 Since no regular cash flow, banks sort of don’t trust you, therefore not eligible for loans or cards easily
10 Hours are horribly longer than normal, and no such thing as over-time… its just a day rate.
11 You never really know your colleagues; it kinda sucks if you are the socializing types!
I’m really unable to finish writing now… apart from blank, I’ve also got too much work piled up now…
Anyone sharing my sentiments?
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