Vantaggi
When allowed to do so, the independence is great , as are most customers and finding out how different business's operate.
Svantaggi
Very sparse paychecks, different realities between home office and field personnel. Home office tells you one thing, your manager something else. Auditors are on the lowest rung of the company, and it is assumed you have nothing of value to contribute. They were sued successfully previously by past employees over OT and other working conditions, and definitions of what is actually qualifies as time worked. And they are pushing the envelope again. As they have lost 2 major customers. When it's busy, they expect you to work off the clock(without getting paid overtime) in order to complete your work. Now that they are losing customers again(previous posting on this site, was accurate about them losing business), they are not allowing you to even have a 40 hour work week, and expect you to only claim 20 -25 hours worked. or even less. Yet be available to answer your phone, respond to emails etc. for the whole week. They are treating you like you are on a salary and should be available for the whole week, yet they will not pay you for a 40 hour work week. And they are very sneaky about it.