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What you're looking for isn't legal AFAIK, so you're probably not going to find any real business that would agree to it. If a business treats someone like an employee, then they are an employee, regardless of what labels you each use or what agreements you may make. If you want to be treated like any other dev in the company, have tasks assigned to you, etc, then you are an employee. Unpaid interns, for example, can't have tasks that primarily benefit the employer assigned to them; they can't do employee work or they will be treated as an employee in the eyes of the law. Employees have to be put on a regular payroll schedule, paid at least minimum wage, have payroll taxes filed and paid, be provided with health insurance if they're not exempt, etc. Failing to do so would be a violation of federal and state labor laws, regardless of whether you're OK with it or not. In NYC specifically, if someone agreed to have you work at their business as a developer, and collected your "tuition" without putting you on payroll, they would end up owing at least $10,000 in fines plus 2x minimum wage for every hour you worked (actual plus liquidated damages), plus back taxes and interest, should anyone tip off the state or IRS about it. |