I was never one to work for someone else. I worked for someone a long time ago to get my foot in the door in the computer industry. When my dad was a lawyer, he wanted to try and get his law firm off the old dictaphone and into the computer age. Bought an IBM PC for his secretary, his desk and one for home. 8086 proc. 64K no HD.
A while after working for the small shop, I went out on my own with an old HS friend and started a web hosting company. Ran than until mid 2000 when I walked away due to biz issues that ended up killing a friendship. Lost a bit of money on that one. Went to work for another IT company and finally quit at the end of '06 when I couldn't take being taken advantage of anymore. I also reasoned that I could collect all of the hourly rate, not just get paid a small fraction. The last seven years have been quite the roller coaster ride and I am currently trying to segue out of the IT industry. Word of mouth biz, that has not given me much biz.
I am not going to find another job/career, but switching to something I enjoy much more. The money doesn't really matter anymore.
I'm still not quite able to talk about this much on Pelican, but I am doing this now:
The above is supposed to be in the Pelican catalog, but there seems to be a little hold up.
One has even made it into a 3 wheeler Morgan:
I also do this:
Bentwood rings.
And of course, a guitar here and there.
