I’ve been a self-employed independent creator for 10 years

Re:I’ve been a self-employed independent creator for 10 years by coldtea on Monday July 17, 2017 @06:49PM (#14792918)

If you think Richard Branson ever worked even 40 hours a week in his life the way an employee does, you'd be surprised.

He had a hippy indy prog record company that got lucky with an unexpected hit record. The rest is investing, self-marketing, and networking, hard work (a la Jobs or Carmcak or Gates etc.) was seldom required.

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Re:I’ve been a self-employed independent creator for 10 years by kafkaesq on Monday July 17, 2017 @10:18PM (#14793873)

Not sure your point is coming across. Okay, he's no Jobs or Gates, that's for sure.

But something tells me probably does something besides sit around and sip Daiquiris (or read HN) all day. "Networking", if you want to call it that. Or "investing" in ways that don't actually lose money takes actual work, you know.

That is: "work", nonetheless.

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Re:I’ve been a self-employed independent creator for 10 years by coldtea on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:55AM (#14795172)

>That is: "work", nonetheless.

If we contrast it with sitting at home or at some beach drinking Daiquiris (which is still a huge part of his time), then yes.

If we contrast it with what is actually work, stressful hard work, then no.

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Re:I’ve been a self-employed independent creator for 10 years by kafkaesq on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:05PM (#14799618)

If we contrast it with .. stressful hard work,

Then we'd be shifting the goalposts.

The point is that, while it's not like he toils away in a coal mine -- and we know he ain't no brain surgeon -- whatever it is that Branson actually does, by any common sense definition it qualifies as "work".

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