I’m a self-employed contractor - been at it for almost 2 years now. Yesterday, a customer told me today was a national holiday, so I said, guess I’m taking the day off then.
Now I’m at home under a heated blanket, sipping coffee and watching YouTube videos. I still get this nagging feeling like I should call someone to say I’m not coming to work or something. It hasn’t quite sunk in that I’m my own boss.
It just feels like I got laid off 2 years ago and never went back to work. Sure, I’ve been working the whole time, but it doesn’t feel like it.
Been self-employed for a bit more than a year now as well. Strangely enough, I really didn’t notice much of a difference at first other than the bookkeeping.
I have been in independent advisory roles for a while now. I haven’t had a boss know what I was doing on a daily basis since 2010. I had a job to do, but it’s was up to me to figure it out and get it done.
I stopped informing anyone when I was taking time off 10 years ago. I have been taking 3-4 weeks in July and 4-5 weeks in Jan-February off for most of a decade now. Officially I only had 2-4 weeks of vacation but, but there was nothing to do during those periods and my old employers paid for my expertise, not time.