RE: FN-FORUM Decisions, decisions

date posted 13th July 2001 14:47

I suppose it depends how good you are at finding work, and on the likelihood
of finding work i.e. contacts and how much money you have behind you etc.
But I know what I'd do if I had an offer of a Job for £2500 per month. Self
employment is fine if it works but in my experience it won't help you get a
regular Job in the future if it doesn't, and even if it does work it may not
work all the time. So I'd say take the Job and wait until self employment is
your only option apart from the JSA/The New Deal or long term incapacity
benefit.

Nick

http://www.artberry.net





> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Jo Gidney
> Sent: 13 July 2001 11:07
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: FN-FORUM Decisions, decisions
>
>
> Dear All
>
> I wonder if I could seek your advice on a pretty important
> decision... My main man and I have recently come back to the UK from
> working abroad at a European Union Instititution. We had admin. jobs
> there, with some web design and administration thrown in.
> Consequently our web skills are mainly in the areas of using
> Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Tables, layers, page construction and
> image manipulation are the sort of thing we're used to (nothing
> particularly flashy).
>
> We' ve moved back with the aim to setting up a small web design
> agency (just the 2 of us) in our area (Hertfordshire), selling to
> SMEs. We've done lots of research into the subject but just can't
> seem come up with realistic sales targets as it's not really clear
> how much money, if any, SMEs are willing to spend on getting their
> business online. Also, freelance rates for our skill levels are not
> forthcoming.
>
> And to further complicate things, we've just had offers of jobs back
> on the continent, earning £2,500 nett per month each, and are faced
> with the question of whether we could realistically earn the same
> (£5,000 per month) between us running the envisaged company. We'd
> really like to give the web design company a go if it's a realistic
> prospect!
>
> Any tips, opinions or experiences would be greatly appreciated...
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jo Gidney
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