Blogshank - Mike Smith, Illustrator and Diary Blogger » desk https://blogshank.com Mon, 11 May 2026 23:21:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Being self-employed https://blogshank.com/2013/01/being-self-employed/ https://blogshank.com/2013/01/being-self-employed/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:42:36 +0000 Mike http://blogshank.com/?p=1480 The Guardian website recently requested some readers’ experiences of being self-employed. I sent them an offering which predictably they didn’t use, so I thought I’d post it here. Maybe they thought it was too trite.

Cartoon about being self-employed

Anyway here is what the Guardian finally put up.

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