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Here are a few thoughts on transitioning from staff to freelance and your cell
phone number. I'm John Harrington.
When you find yourself unexpectedly transitioning from staff to freelance
one of the things that people are going to try to reach out to you and talk to
you whether they are perspective future employers, friends, colleagues, or even
family members, is to reach out to you and call you on your cell phone. Now the problem is if your cell
phone belongs to the company, is owned by the company, and the company also owns the
number,
the likelihood that you can actually walk away with that cell phone number is
not very high. Now it's even less if you left the company unexpectedly because
somehow you're fired for whatever reason.
So the key thing to do is to have that cell phone be a cell phone that you pay
for, your company reimburses you for. The company may give you an option to reimburse
you for your cell phone or pay for it yourself. Make certain that the company
reimburses you for it and not that the bill automatically goes to the cell
phone company, excuse me, automatically goes to the company itself.
By doing so, that lets you keep your cell phone number when you transition from
staff to freelance.