Independent Contractor Job Description
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An Independent Contractor performs specific job requirements for clients. Their role is completing a particular assignment by a stipulated deadline, gathering the materials needed to complete the assignment, and supervising the assignment from inception to completion. Their responsibilities are communicating assignment related issues with the client, ensuring that assignments are completed according to stipulated requirements, and finalizing tasks by predetermined deadlines.
Steps to take to start your career as an Independent Contractor and other jobs like it
- You need to determine if your business needs employees, if you need to raise money, how long it will take you to become profitable, how much you will need to spend to get there and what business structure.
- Even if just setting up a business as the sole employee, there are still documents you need to file even if it’s just a tax form. More complicated structures need more documents and licensing that changes by state and industry.
- Even the smallest businesses need money to get going.
- This set-up process can be as simple as purchasing supplies to as complicated as building a team to create a new to world product and everything in between.
- This is where all the prep work pays off because if no one knows you exist then they can’t be your customer so marketing, even informally, is key.
What I do:
I'm an independent contractor and I work in construction. I do both residential and commercial painting and that leads into both interior and exterior repaints and new construction. I don't have any employees, it's just me sometimes I sub out work.
Career Skills:
You have to be healthy, you know, there's a lot of times when you're up on a ladder, you push yourself to your limits a lot, you can work out that there's a lot of roof work sometimes. That having a willingness to learn new things is huge if you're not learning something new every day, you're doing it wrong.
Job Challenges:
You really do push yourself to the limits a lot but I really like that challenge personally. That's one aspect that I really enjoy about my job is that I'm working with my hands and I'm physically pushing myself every day.
Work Life Balance:
Sometimes my work to life balance is pretty sporadic. Most of the time there's not much life balance if you would. When you are working alone and you're on a kind of a larger project it comes time to get that done and you're going to work the weekends, you're going to work late, when you're outside, you're in the sun all day, you're going to come home tired and you're not going to want to do anything, at least for me that's that's the case.
Tips for Starting Your Own Business:
Be determined, have goals and plans and work towards them every single day. Find good construction companies to get in with and they're gonna help you throughout your entire career.
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- Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in Physics Education
- Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in General Studies
- Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in English Language and Literature
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