For sometime the idea of working for myself, my own business, if you will. Has a certain appeal.
My biggest stumbling block is comming up with a business that I feel is viable. Anyone can open a business. For one to work you have to fill a need or create a need to fill, or assist with filling a need.
Having some kind of storefront has appeal for me. As does starting something like a home base business and working up from there.
My neighbor is a Gardener, it suits him and he enjoys the work and answers to himself.
Ill keep thinkin.
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Huge disconnect right now between small businesses and their IT systems. Too much time wasted. There are people that will do band-aid fixes, but no one will evaluate their entire system and put them where they need to be. I think it's a big untapped sector
I think you should definitely try the whole own your own (kinda redundant huh?) business. Your a very smart man, almost nobody can jip you. I think it would a great way. Now i dont know what you will do but i hope you keep thinking about it. love nae
When I was going to school I did home repair/restoration etc. It was great, I could work when I wasn't in class, take time off to go do my reserve stuff and a lot of it was all cash. However, I did get stiffed a few times. I decided to go back to teaching when I fell off a ladder while painting a house. It was raining and I had a cast on my knee already. Just because I had a broken knee didn't mean I could take time off.
That was my last "full time" job. I did do work for a few clients on my school breaks. When I got laid off when OC went bankrupt I had many of my old clients calling me up.
It is nice being your own boss, but I had trouble with the billing end of it. Also, I was not very good at estimating and charging. Some days I made lots other days not enough....
We have an IT consultant for the district who handles the PC side (office managers/admin) and he does VERY well. I know school districts are always on the look out for good IT people. Check out edjoin.org, or the Oregon equivalent.
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