Kajjo  +  197034 Wed, 15 Feb 06 12:25 PM What is the typical term to describe that you are self-employed in the sense of having your own business as opposed to be employed by another company (but in many cases do not have employees of your own)? Particularly, when working as lawyer, doctor, pharmacist, software developer or business consultant. Are there differences between UK and US? What is the difference to "freelancer"? Thanks in advance, Kajjo Kajjo Joined on Sun, Dec 18 2005 Full Member 150

	nona the brit  +  197042 Wed, 15 Feb 06 01:10 PM There isn't much difference between self-employed and freelancer. I am in this situation and will call myself either - and I also trade as a business without mentioning that it is just me! On a day to day level, I find that I am self-employed or a business when I am working on a project for a client that they don't want to deal with themselves, but a freelancer when I go in and act as a member of their staff on a temporary basis. (even if this doesn't actually include working at their office. for example I may be doing some work for one of their customers as a member of their team, they won the contract, they are dealing with the customer, they are invoicing the customer etc..their customer doesn't even know that I don't work for the first company as an employee.) Self employed people will go out and win their own customers and contracts. A freelancer is brought in to provide extra skills or time when a company can't cope with a contract or customer on their own. Usually. The terms are pretty flexible in my industry. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all. Difference Between

	Hly2004  +  197097 Wed, 15 Feb 06 03:34 PM If one is a  senior translator, he may have his own customers, and can find new customers from the internet, then he's called a self-employed, and maybe he can ask other translators to help him when there's too much work to do. If one is a junior translator, he may have to emploed in more than one translation companies, and he does his work at home, and his work is given by these companies, although only when the companies need translation work, will they give him the work to do, I guess he can be called a freelance. Just a shoot in the dark. Hly2004 Joined on Sun, Nov 20 2005 Regular Member 717 Translation