There are no specific requirements for a self employed courier. However, to be successful you will have to work hard to find the business and deliver in a timely fashion so you do not lose clients.
The first thing one needs to become a self employed courier is a vehicle and a driver's license. The next step would be to consult ones local yellow pages to find courier companies and to call them up to see if they are looking to take on self employed couriers.
2.1 million are employed and around 132,000 of them jobs are self employed :)
Artists held about 221,900 jobs in 2008. About 60 percent were self-employed.
Money had not been invented - everyone was self employed.
Yes Blue Cross Blue shield does offer health insurance to those who are self employed but there are restrictions and requirements as expected.
To create a self employed job, an individual needs to develop the necessary skills, services, and products that consumers want. Once the individual has developed these qualities and assets, they can develop their business and job.
I would normally recommend that you check on local job sites to where you live for driving jobs as these are normally all advertised online. If you are looking for driving work, it could be worth contacting the couriers directly as some of these take on drivers on a self employed role - especially during their busiest periods such as the run up to Christmas
It depends in what you mean by "jobs". If you mean farm work, then there is plenty of that to do. But your character is entirely self-employed, which means that the only "work" they can do is on his/her farm.
Many self-employed weavers were put out of work by the power-loom. But mechanisation also created many and better jobs.
Most first class passengers had jobs in which they were either self employed or heads of companies. Many were also politicians.
A self employed architect is bob the builder
The IRS website offers a lot of information on self employed tax. They describe "who is self-employed", "what are my obligations to paying taxes if one is self-employed" etc.