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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Best rules as a contractor Post 302753853 by taltamir on Wednesday 9th of January 2013 12:52:21 PM

01-09-2013

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If you are working as a full time employee for a company that classifies you as a contractor (as I am currently doing yourself) you are basically getting screwed by your boss. The government HATES you because you are not conforming, it will express this by punishing you.

Unemployement tax: for regular employees its 50% paid by you, 50% paid by boss... (well, 50-50 of the fees, the actual benefits are paid mostly by general taxes not collected fees in checks).

As a contractor you pay 100% of that very same fee yourself and are INELIGIBLE to receive ANY benefits at all.

Medicare/medicaid: Those also go from 50-50 split to 100% you, but at least you are eligible.

Healthcare: if you work over 30 hours a week obamacare classifies you as full time employee and boss has to provide healthcare plan drafted by the government or pay a fee/fine which is used to help fund it, they will pay the fee because it is cheaper.
If you are a contractor you have to buy it yourself or pay a fee, and buying it yourself is going to be much more expensive than for a company to negotiate a group deal... unless you are very young and healthy. (with 14 years experience I am thinking you are too old for that).

IIRC there are a few other ways in which you get the shaft too...
But, unfortunately a person has to eat and contractor job is better then no job at all.

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XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			 XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs(3pm)

NAME

       XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs - XML::RSS::Headline Example Subclass

VERSION

       2.2

SYNOPSIS

       You can also subclass XML::RSS::Headline to provide a 'multiline' RSS headline based on additional information inside the RSS Feed.  Here
       is an example for the Perl Jobs (jobs.perl.org) RSS feed by simply passing in the "hlobj" class name.

	   use XML::RSS::Feed;
	   use XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs;
	   use LWP::Simple qw(get);

	   my $feed = XML::RSS::Feed->new(
	       name  => "perljobs",
	       url   => "http://jobs.perl.org/rss/standard.rss",
	       hlobj => "XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs",
	   );

	   while(1) {
	       $feed->parse(get($feed->url));
	       print $_->headline . "
" for $feed->late_breaking_news;
	       sleep($feed->delay);
	   }

       Here is the output from rssbot on irc.perl.org in channel #news (which uses these modules)

	   <rssbot>  + Part Time Perl
	   <rssbot>    Brian Koontz - United States, TX, Dallas
	   <rssbot>    Part time, Independent contractor (project-based)
	   <rssbot>    http://jobs.perl.org/job/950

MUTAITED METHOD

       $headline->item( $item )

       Init the object for a parsed RSS item returned by XML::RSS.

AUTHOR

       Jeff Bisbee, "<jbisbee at cpan.org>"

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-xml-rss-feed at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=XML-RSS-Feed>.  I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress
       on your bug as I make changes.

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       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

	   perldoc XML::RSS::Headline::PerlJobs

       You can also look for information at:

       * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
	   <http://annocpan.org/dist/XML-RSS-Feed>

       * CPAN Ratings
	   <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/XML-RSS-Feed>

       * RT: CPAN's request tracker
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       * Search CPAN
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Special thanks to Rocco Caputo, Martijn van Beers, Sean Burke, Prakash Kailasa and Randal Schwartz for their help, guidance, patience, and
       bug reports. Guys thanks for actually taking time to use the code and give good, honest feedback.

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright 2006 Jeff Bisbee, all rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       XML::RSS::Feed, XML::RSS::Headline, XML::RSS::Headline::Fark, XML::RSS::Headline::UsePerlJournals, POE::Component::RSSAggregator

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