Hi everyone,
367 days ago I was bidding farewell to my co-workers. 365 days ago I sat down at my home office and spent my first day as a full time one man consultancy. I've learnt a lot in the past year. And I'll summarize some of that below, but if you'd like to bounce any of your questions off me, I'd be happy to answer (either about data or consulting).
I'm 28 years old from Canada. Netting about 130K annually, which is double the full time job I quit.
What I've learnt about myself:
I hate people, but I still need them. I was so excited to work from home in my PJs everyday. That quickly wore off and I now have a permanent space in a co-working building. I don't talk much to the people here, but I just had that longing to be involved in society, so I got out of the house.
I need constant stimulus in terms of new work. I really lose enthusiasm when I've been doing the same project over and over again. So I'll usually try to find something with a quick turnaround that I can pump out for a bit of variety and provides a change of scenery.
What I've learnt about Consulting
I don't think I'll ever feel comfortable with workload. I have such a hard time not doing lead gen, even if I'm pumping out 40 hours of billable in a week. The fear of suddenly losing two big contracts and you're suddenly down to netting $1000 a week is hard to shake. I often find myself too busy. But I'm happy with that.
When every hour of your day is a decision between making money (billing work) or not making money, it really puts into perspective the value of other things in your life. Is going to the gym worth $150 of time you could be billing out? How about playing on that Rec Sports team? (the answer is yes btw).
Plans for this year 1. Juggle being a new father with my hectic consulting 2. Try to launch a plug and play product line 3. Hire an extra set of hands 4. Get some regional work
Anyway, that's my brief reflection. Feel free to AMA.
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