On: Ask HN: Have you used a pass-through agency?

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For this reason http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misclassification_of_employees_... due to this law http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/opinion/21shulman.html?_r=... (but it's not entirely honest, e.g. it doesn't tell you that Daniel Patrick Moynihan was the Congresscritter who slipped it into the bill in the dead of night at the behest of several pass-through agencies) it's going to be nearly impossible to achieve what you want.

At best you might start up an independent consulting firm, but you'd have to have multiple clients and spend a lot of time on sales and marketing (of yourself). Gerald Weinberg recommends you make your hourly rate 5-6 times what you want to earn just to allow for all the overhead (http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Succ... or get it new from the publisher: http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/soc.html).