Many decades ago my dad started his own small business in insurance claims adjustment. He spent an entire year trying to get it off the ground, but the only client he was able to secure was his own former employer, and fortunately after a year they offered to just take him back on as a full-time employee again. He told me the stress of constantly searching for new clients (and trying to do sales etc.) was absolutely miserable, and the psychological security of a regular paycheck beat the slightly larger amount he was making as a contractor.
Yeah, this is what we're trying to solve at A.Team on a few fronts:
1) You get to work in teams on long-term, meaningful missions (we're request-only on the client side) and earn $100/hr+ on average
2) We proactively surface missions that are a great fits for you
3) We have guaranteed on-time payments for our network (we pay them every 2 weeks, no matter what, even if the client doesn't pay us)
The vision is essentially is that you can join A.Team, discover incredible teammates, and discover incredible work that fits your interests and passions with top startups and enterprise cos building transformative new products.