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Six example sentences with self-employed, each labelled with its topic.
Being self-employed means her income arrives in lumps, so she keeps six months of expenses in a separate account.
Finance
Most wedding shooters here are self-employed, invoicing each couple directly and carrying their own equipment insurance.
Photography
The tribunal treated the courier as self-employed, which changed which of the company's obligations applied to her hours.
Law
Nearly a fifth of the region's workers are self-employed, which makes the unemployment figures harder to read.
Economics
Most session players are self-employed, chasing invoices from studios between the gigs that actually pay on time.
Music
Before the company had payroll, all three founders were technically self-employed and billed it as contractors.
Startups
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