Question for Canadian Contracters/Freelancers

[danaeris]

(1) Rule of thumb: if all of your income is self-employed income, how much of it should you be saving to pay the government at the end of the year?

(2) Anyone remember what percentage of your rent you're allowed to deduct as your "home office" if you don't have an office set aside? Someone told me it was one third.

Question for Torontonians in general:
If you are careful, yet still eating healthy, how much do you think you could eat on per month: $100? 200? 300? 400?

I'm doing an approximate "What is the least amount I can afford to work for if I want the ability to pay my monthly bills + food" guesstimate, so if numbers are off, or from the top of your head, that's ok.

I will probably do a quick attempt to look up these numbers after I eat dinner, and post what I find in an edit to this post.

Weee!

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Emailed a contact made from St. Louis. They do need freelancers, here's their guideline, they publish daily, and they pay at least $225/story. Steady work. But, to do this I think I will need to get my butt to a library that carries science journals every weekend. Anyone have suggestions for nearby libraries that would have lots of science journals that are current?

Comments

[ubbaken.livejournal.com]

You could always meander into Thode library @ Mac. I could check to see what sort of publications they have on the shelves to peruse.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I've been very successfully feeding myself on that 99 cent a meal plan I've discussed. And not just in terms of subsistance eating; I've been having large, well balanced meals of good food. It *does* take some effort; it costs me $1.25 for 3 loaves of whole wheat bread (which also becomes croutons and breadcrumbs), but takes about 40 minutes of work in small 10m bits over 2 hours. I spent $35 on food 2 weeks ago, and have eaten less than a quarter of it. SO with planning, and allowing for you buying a little higher grade treats and prepped meals, the grocery part of your plans can be under $100.

Do you want to talk more about this sometime?

[ladygiggles.livejournal.com]

The Toronto Reference Library on Yonge just north of Bloor.

Any hospital library. 10 years ago, anyone could go into the library at sick kids and read the journals, you just needed id to do searches and photocopy stuff. That could have changed.

Try the U of T library. I don't know if you need id to go in or not.

[secretsoflife.livejournal.com]

you specifically want to go to the gerstein science library at u of t. it's AWESOME. you probably don't need a card to just get in, but i think you can get community cards at the robarts library (the turkey :) )

-leigh

[jackspryte.livejournal.com]

Yes! Toronto Reference has science journals in print form as well as few subscription services avaialable for online use and databases for scientific research etc.(4th and 5th floor BTW)

and secrets is right the Gerstein library is the way to go for U of T.

Online resources/libraries/full-text:
Directory of Open Access Journals -http://www.doaj.org/
Frontiers in Bioscience -http://www.bioscience.org
PrePrint Network -http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
High Wire Press: Stanford University
-http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

Yeah, so go check it out.