(no subject)

international women's day

Women's day is coming up

Please do not add anyone to a women's list without checking first (try their profile etc) - and also asking/confirming with them! they may be non-binary, fluid, or just uncomfortable with that! Also lists can act as a method for people to attack the people on that list.

Please do not directly ask people to talk about being an X in Y - some people are fed up with it (we talk and talk and nothing has changed...), some people aren't comfortable with it (you can get backlash), or tons of other equally valid reasons they don't want to. Try reaching out to your networks broadly (we are seeing a X to talk about Y - please let me know if you want to talk on this or know people who do, please share!).

brining awareness to causes, information, people is great, but not if you are potentially causing pain or harm in the process.

(no subject)

 So - if you are originally from the US - and most of your contacts are in the US can you keep working for US companies?

yes!

Two ways we have done this

1 - a PEO - professional employment organization
2 - start your own company and sign a business to business contractor agreement

in both cases you are an employee of the PEO or your own company and there is a B2B agreement between the company and the company you want to work for and you are a contractor not an employee

it's not perfect but in some cases it's better than what is available locally

In both cases you lose a chunk of money to the overhead, be aware of that