[geeks] Re: Career advice

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Scott McCool [mailto:scottm at students.missouri.edu]
~ 
~ 
~ Sigh, that's the problem isn't it? (:
~ 
~ To complicate things, I just got the verbal offer for Job #3 -- and it
~ pays better then I expected.  A small absolute $$ raise from 
~ what I make
~ now, with much lower cost of living (but it's 1099, so higher 
~ taxes and
~ insurance out of my own pocket)....

I have been down this road before and you are headed for an IRS problem.
Almost nobody temping in the tech fields qualify for 1099. The first (but
not only clue) is that you will report to the same work address daily. The
second clue in a long list of clues is that you are TOLD what to do, WHEN to
do it and HOW to do it. Both of these situations place you outside the
qualifications for 1099. I have had several pimps do this to me and I went
along with it for the desparately needed $$. One year the IRS asked what I
was up to and I had to pay TONS of taxes out of pocket. When I tried to sue
the pimp I found out that most whorehouses are shady corporations owned by
corporations incorporated in strange places/countries and are nearly
impossible to sue. Rule 'O Thumb - pimps lie, and if they aren't lying they
are stupid enough to believe what their boss tells them to say.