[Captain Ahab Jr]

If anyone reading this is thinking of going it alone then after 4 months in of jumping in with both feet I would say go for it, you may wish you did it earlier.

I decided when I started not to chase the money but go for the more interesting jobs that would stretch my abilities, challenge me and allow me to up my game. Also maybe give a little bit of money back so as to have a bit more of a life not revolving around long work hours.

So far this approach seems to have sort of worked out ok as I'm already fully booked up for 2016 to work on some interesting projects.

At the moment busy working on a weight saving and performance adding mission with a single seater racing car. Then in a few months time while still working for the same company I'll be switching projects to do more of the the same on a high performance limited production road car.

It's not F1 but after 18yrs of it I'm in no mad rush to jump back into the game even when a local team and one of my old haunts announced today they need another 200 people in their quest to get back to the top.

The bit that hasn't worked out as I planned is doing less hours, quite the opposite has happened, 55 hours in a 5 day week since I started is the new normal and I don't see it backing off anytime soon.

Got no complaints as I'm enjoying what I'm doing, the people I work with and the company employing me is easily one of the best I've worked for.