Re: FN-FORUM Decisions, decisions

date posted 13th July 2001 15:25

It all depends what you want - self employment is a way of life - there are
good times - sometimes very very good - and there are bad times - but there
is always freedom. That's what you don't get working for someone else.
Freedom to work when you want to, freedom to make your own decisions. Money
isn't everything - I'd take self employment first everytime - and if you
really want it to work - it most likely will. It has for me - and by the
end of September I'll have finished 30 years working on my own.

Good luck!

Andrew

> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [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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