It's been two months since I started working as "Horritt Consulting", and things seem to be going pretty well. I've managed to invoice for 86% of my time so far - my target is 80% so I've one day a week to do admin, research, CPD, hoover the office and look for work.
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| Is eight cups of tea per working day excessive? |
Having your own office space is great, as I used to hate working in a big open plan office, and the commute is down to around 2.5 metres. Takes me about 3 seconds if the traffic's not too bad.
There are some interesting jobs coming in too. I'm now looking at some potential work in the Philippines, which could be very exciting.
There's some things I've found difficult:
Not getting out much. Popping out for a paper is the highlight of the day. I'm trying to get round this by getting out and about to meet people at least once a week.
Getting paid 2 (or more) months in arrears. Fortunately I have a credit card, but living off one of those isn't ideal. Perhaps I should be chasing those invoices harder.
Focus (I should be working while I'm writing this) - giving up smoking hasn't helped. There's always something diverting to do - make another pot of tea, play a bit of guitar, listen to a really interesting programme on Radio 4 about fishing quotas, look out of the window.
Organising my time properly - never one of my strong points.
It'll be interesting to see how much work there is after March when the new financial year starts - lots of the stuff I've been doing is happening because people are trying to spend their budget for 2011-2. But at least I'll have had a few good months to begin with.
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| Sunset from the office window |
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