Put Off Going Self Employed As A Writer

Dunroamin

dktreesea wrote: »

By low paid, do you mean NMW? You're presumably willing to work for benefits if you are on the Work Programme. Surely even a minimum wage job would pay better?

Presumably he isn't - that's the whole point.

dktreesea

Dunroamin wrote: »

Presumably he isn't - that's the whole point.

Yes, I do realise that. Him and plenty of self employed people, so the OP has lots of company.

The problem I see with being self employed, especially in view of the fact that 75% of all self employed people in Britain are micro businesses, i.e. they don't employ anyone, (source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/growing-your-business-a-report-on-growing-micro-businesses) is that, if UC goes ahead in its current form, the benefit subsidies for self employed people are going to drop like a stone, because of the minimum income floor.

While, at the rate the implementation is going, plus the intense lobbying against the MIF by self employed interest groups, this MIF may never come to pass, surely self employed people need to have a look to the near future and ask themselves whether they have either the capital or the talent to be making a profit of £10k or so per annum by the time the MIF comes in.

DCFC79

Dovah_diva wrote: »

You need to get a job and write in your spare time.

He's tried to find work, he's had advice from alot of posters about what to do.