A few changes

In my last post I side stepped events that were happening at the time and just thought it worth mentioning the exhibition, now that things have happened it’s probably time for an update.  Towards the end of last year my Mum was diagnosed with lung cancer.  After a brief period of uncertainty it was made pretty clear that it was inoperable and untreatable.  We had to watch as she deteriorated very quickly and by the end of January she had gone, only three month from diagnosis to death.  But enough of that and moving on…

I was also informed in January that the small consultancy firm I had worked at for quite a few years was winding down due to the owner looking for his ‘route to retirement’.  When I say ‘winding down’ what that actually meant was he was going to continue as a lone consultant but was looking to off-load the staff.  I can safely say, January was not my favourite month.

With the frame of mind I was already in it was a big welcome to uncertain-ville!  It’s funny how life seems to go through periods of stability and upheaval, some times you plan it sometimes you don’t, either way it happens.  So it was looking like it was time to look for another job, but then there was an alternative.

So me and Andy (my ‘was’ co-worker and now co-owner) formed our own business.  I have to say it wasn’t quite as straight forward as that (as I’m sure that anyone that that has set up a business will tell you).  There was a brief period which involved lots of  ‘is this the right thing’ and ‘can this actually work’ and then onto the niggling issues of office premisses, equipment, servers, remote working, banks and accountants.  Once these were out of the way we could concentrate on the real time killing issues like getting a working phone system in place (just how hard can it be BT)!

So here I am, a director and co-owner of my own IT company… which of course, in the real world means absolutely nothing more than if we don’t make any money then I don’t get paid.  That bit seems pretty straight forward then.

I’ve never worked for myself and so have never had to think of things like logo’s or how invoices should look or how a company should be run but so far it’s all good.  I’m thoroughly enjoying being in control of where it’s going, what we’re going to do and how it will be done.

There has been a down side.  The down side of this is that it has taken up just about every spare minute I’ve had for the past few months to get it all set up and running which has meant I have a camera that’s been gathering dust.  Not good.

So now things are returning to ‘normal’ and there may even be some spare time around the corner I feel once again the need to pick up the camera and do something…

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