Q: im not a contractor .i exercise myright to work as a handyman,25 yrexp. is it acrime

A: Sounds like you should take the Bar Exam. You can be a handyman without a contractor's license so long as you do not charge more than $600.00 for work you do on a property during a 12 month period. Too many "handymen" were stitching together jobs of $600 or less into substantial work for which a contractor's license was required. I would suggest that you should look to the Bill of Rights to see exactly what rights we do have as citizens of this country. You may have a right to work but not everyone can work in every job that they want. Some jobs require that you be certified by the state as competent. Would you want an unlicensed surgeon working on you? Of course as the jobs became more complicated, the licensing became more complex too, now there are licenses for jobs that were never thought of. The government intervenes to protect the citizens from shady characters who would defraud them, take their money and do potentially bad work; sometimes good people who work competently get caught up in the system to their disadvantage, it is the price we all pay for the government to oversee protecting us from bad workers, bad food, flammable clothing, dangerous cars, shady lawyers, etc, etc.

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A: Not quite sure what your question is. You say you work as a handyman for the private sector. This means that for every job you take on, you enter into a contractual relationship with the party which hires you to do work. That means you are an independent contractor for every job you take on. It is not clear why you have two cases pending for what you call "contracting". I presume these cases are for contracting without a license. If this is the case, you will most likely be required to obtain and maintain a license to do the kind of work you are doing.

You obviously need a lawyer to represent you in your cases. Perhaps you already have one. If so, you should discuss with the lawyer everything about which you need answers. If you don't have one, you need a good lawyer who can explain what your rights and obligations are as an independent handyman.