Finishing things up at work, consulting and new tv shows
I am wrapping up my time at my current employer. Friday is my last day and I’m feeling better and better about it all the time. Every day is better than the last.
Also I am making some headway on the whole consulting-thing. That is, what I would like to do is to spend my evenings doing a couple of extra hours of work and earning some extra scratch. I mean right now I spend at least an hour or two every evening watching television. What if I could parlay my experience with SAP int a part time gig?
Well, my current employer doesn’t have anyone to replace me. I’ve offered to continue to support them and the CFO pretty much told me to name my price. He liked the idea quite a bit and described a scenario where they would email me some work to do every day and in the evenings I would take care of it. This could work out well - for a while. I think it won’t go on for more than a few months, but its enough to get started with.
I spent some time today trying to figure out what I need to do in order to work independently. Someone suggested registering a corporation (an “s-corp”). While I was researching that I read that the most common incorporation tool used by consultants is a limited liability company. Both are supposed to offer pretty good insulation from lawsuits, but the s-corp also includes all manner of formal procedures that have to be followed. It sounded like a giant pain in the ass. LLC’s are moderately expensive to set up.
So I decided to just set up a “sole proprietorship”. Until I start doing this full time I think this is the best way. Its cheap and easy. I can do it here in town too.
Last night I saw the season opener of Heroes. It didn’t exactly take off running. I guess maybe it will take some time to get geared up. That’s what happened with the first season, I suppose. I also saw Chuck - and it was ok. It had good parts and it might be ok, but I have some trouble suspending my disbelief about some aspects.
ugh - I think I’m pretty tired.
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