One man's journey to be more just a lucky stiff
Building a team’s been an interesting process. Most people think you just put up a job ad, run a couple of interviews, and you’ve now got the capacity to bill another 40 – 50 hours a week.
It’s only been through trying to build my team that I’ve discovered how much more there is to building a successful and effective team. There’s: [Read more…] about I just fired my most senior employee
Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve written here. I apologise for everyone who’s been following this journal and who’s been disappointed by my updates.
SOOO much has happened since I last updated that it’s hard to know where to start.
First of all, I did make the jump. I started down the dark and dangerous path towards the world of running my own programming company.
Oh wow. What a head spin.
It seems as though there’s one little detail that people never tell you about starting your own business. [Read more…] about From coding, to…
So a little more about that software company I told you all about awhile back, the one I’m running from my basement? Well, business has really picked up in the last few months, and to be completely honest with all of you, I wasn’t expecting it to go so well! In the beginning, I was kind of just testing the waters and trying my hand at being my own business owner. And somehow, it just took off like a horse at the races.
The contracts have been pouring in and I don’t think I can handle the workload with the way I’ve got things set up now. So, it’s time to take it up a level. Maybe expand the business, hire a few new experts to help me run the whole outfit, set up a new department so I can offer more and even take more jobs. [Read more…] about Time to Get Serious About This Business of Mine
This is the next big thing on my mind… When do you bite the bullet and tell your boss that you’re walking out the door?
I’ve got two conflicting ideas in my head at this point in time.
1. Tell the boss that I’m leaving now so I can spend all my time building my own business
2. Wait until I’m making good money through my own business so that I don’t need the other income anymore
Both have pro’s and con’s.
If I stay at my job and put 50 hours a week into doing projects there, sure I’ll get paid but I also won’t have either the time to build my own business or the drive to build it because money won’t be that important. [Read more…] about To quit or not to quit…
So this is where the fun stuff starts – how do you set up a home business?
When you’ve been an employee for such a long time, it’s kind of hard to break out of that mindset. You know, turning up at 9, dawdling through the morning, taking a 1 hour (and a bit if you can get away with it) lunch break and then wasting the afternoon in the hope that you’ll get out of their before peak hour hits.
Running your own business is SO much tougher!
I was chatting with my mate Scott who set up software development company in Sydney called Terem Technologies a few months ago and he’s been telling me all about it. Trying to manage your own time, being responsible only to yourself, working LONG days with not much return (at the start anyway…).
Part of me is thinking that I’ve made a mistake.
Maybe it would’ve been easier and safer to just stick out the 9-5 and work my way up the corporate ladder in the hope that I got promoted enough to be comfortable after a while…
And then all I have to do is think back to the funeral and that ‘lucky’ stiff lying in the ground and the motivation comes FLOODING back.
I don’t want to be that guy and if I’m going to avoid it, I’m going to have to bust my arse.
Right. It’s time to start the day. Just after I get my coffee… 🙂
