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More than 20 million Americans are self-employed, and other developed nations around the globe also have similarly large groups of people working for themselves. The rank of the self-employed is growing fast as people discover the freedom of being their own bosses.
For those of you considering a new career path that keeps you free from the Dilbert/Office Space lifestyle, here are six tried-and-true options you might want to check out:
Laura Vanderkam wrote an excellent article over at the City Journal about the ins and outs of the freelance economy. She talks about the benefits of self-employment to both the individual and the overall economy. She also points to a study that showed that self-employment has boosted the overall business-sector productivity of the U.S.
Her most interesting conclusions are around the issue of health care, both the difficulty in finding coverage and the expense of it for self-employed people. Because of the health care situation, some self-employed are forced to seek jobs with corporations. The situation is also increasing support for a national universal health care system:
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