I agree with Khalid!<br><br>It's easy enough to test out for a while.<br><br>Just wish to add two things:<br><br>1. There is no more security in a "day job with benefits" then there is in free lancing. Ask the hundreds of thousands of technological workers who have lost their jobs over the past six months about that. And with severance pay in the U.S. (way behind other civilized countries) that comes as a rude awakening for anyone.<br>
2. Actually, folks, we're all working for the same bosses, whatever the format. What you have to watch out for, Tao, is the biggest danger of all, not being without work (that's not going to happen to you), but that of super self-exploitation.<br>
<br>As an "independent" worker, I work 18 hour days; I would never allow a visible employer to exploit me so cruelly. But somehow the warm and fuzzy illusion of "independence" makes me feel I am "working for myself".<br>
<br>It's six of one and half a dozen of the other. It's just that being freelance you can at least tend to do more interesting work and not be subject to the anarchy of production so directly in a fixed crystalized work situation.<br>
<br>One day we will work for the real needs of humanity, all together,<br><br>Saludos,<br><br>Victor Kane<br><a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a><br><a href="http://projectflowandtracker.com">http://projectflowandtracker.com</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Build a customer base for a while, then quit your day job. <br><br>Don't quit without having tested the water for at least six months, and have validated that YOU can make a decent income from YOUR Drupal consulting.<br>
<br>It does not matter what others are doing (or not doing) or where the economy is at. What matters is whether YOU can do it or not. The only way to be sure is to moonlight/freelance on the side for a while.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Tao Starbow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:starbow@citris-uc.org" target="_blank">starbow@citris-uc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Drupal Consulting List,<br>
<br>
I have been chewing over leaving a stable, but increasingly confining university job and jumping into the Drupal biz. And then I read how were are in the worst global economic situation since the great depression, and wonder if I am crazy for even thinking about it. But, on the other hand, Drupalcon just maxed out at 1400 people over a month before the actual con.<br>
<br>
So, how are you folks doing? Struggling for every lead, turning business away, or somewhere in between?<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
-tao<br>
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