Also returned from a long time away....what Ive been up to.

livinitup0 · #1 03-26-2007, 05:32 PM

My bosses boss just called me and in a very proper, professional way said that we needed to sit down and talk tomorrow.....he did no elaborate. Hopefully before tomorrow I can deduce what is going to happen from some other people.

Im either getting fired or being offered more money to give up on my buisness....or maybe something that will include both (probably not).... Id say its 50/50 right now. Tomorrow should be fun.

Please discuss...

K-Slay · #2 03-26-2007, 06:35 PM

I don't think you have anything to fear. But you do have a decision to make, and you're scared you won't make the right one. You're (we're) still young and making a mistake now isn't going to be the end all be all. You haven't mentioned kids, so I'll assume there are none. You don't have a huge family responsibility and I think the risk of going into business on your own is best taken right now. That being said, its your decision. Have comfidence in your decision capabilities and go with what you think, no one else should be able to influence your choice.

elus2 · #3 03-26-2007, 07:13 PM

I decided to stop the 9-5 at the beginning of this month. I've taken the last 26 days off getting ready for a move and setting up my business plan to run an IT services company for small businesses (10 to 50 workstations). I have no income coming in right now but lots of meetings lined up with prospective clients over the next month. I'll be offering basic IT support services like data backups, software upgrades, fixed asset inventory tracking, helpdesk support and technology purchasing.

I can live with no substantial income coming in for at least 12 months but hopefully I'll be much busier soon. I'm also fairly confident that I can pick up database programming gigs when business is still slow. I want to steer away from this type and focus on selling services that I can scale well and/or automate in order to get higher value for my time since programming gigs get paid on a per hour basis.

I'm excited, scared and overwhelmed at times but since I'm at that point in my life where I'm relatively free of responsibilities (no kids and no mortgage) I'll probably never get a better chance to avoid the drudgery of working 9-5 forever [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].