It's possible that this [CENSORED] was [REDACTED] from [REMOVED], I suppose

I'm in a rather interesting situation right now.

You see, I'm about to sign a contract. This contract will mean that I'm working for a company, but I won't be employed by them. In fact, technically I'll be self-employed, but I'll have no customers or clients. So I'll have to declare my own tax information and so on, despite the fact that I'll be receiving a wage.

Except that it won't be a wage, because I'll be working on a basis that precludes the possibility of hourly payment. It's performance-based, but the level of performance isn't measured in anything more than the most cursory way.

On top of all this, if it sounds like I'm not giving much away, that's because the contract also stipulates that I'm not allowed to say anything about the company in question. "Anything" in this case means exactly what it sounds like; taken literally, the text of the contract says that I can't make any form of comment by any medium whatsoever about any aspect of the company for which I don't work but which still pays me a non-performance-based performance-linked not-wage.

Honestly, you make simple enquiries about employment opportunities and before long you're sounding like Jason Bourne...

No, it's not drug-running, prostitution, pornography or anything to do with the security services. Calm down, for goodness' sake.