ummm, here's an idea

[maelorin]

at least, kind of ...

i'm thinking of getting back into consulting.

if i can't get a job, perhaps i should employ myself. again.

just two things i need to pin down, i guess ...

1. consulting what


2. to whom

which ought to help pin down the rest of the questions for a basic business plan, i think.

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[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

3. What sort of briefcase should I have?

[maelorin]

i have a briefcase already. i went to law school :)

[ensign ro! teh woot! paramount n00bs had to destroy her, of course. ro as a starship captain could have founded a cool spin off ...]

[maelorin]

i'm actually serious baout starting my own business.

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

I have no doubt about it. It was more a comment that a consultant is usually someone from overseas or interstate with a briefcase who tells you what you already know. Such as the overseas consultants to the SA Health System that literally added a new cover sheet to a report generated internally five years previously and claimed it as their own. These are the ones that charged so ludicrously for their services that the Flinders Medical Centre technically became bankrupt before they had even stepped through the door, too. As with any business. finding a niche and occupying it are the difficult bits. And becoming a Consulting Consultant usually requires pulling oneself up by one's bootlaces. And I agree, Ro is cute.

[maelorin]

i do have the slight problem of being ethical ...

my biggest concern is how/who to land my first client?

as for niches, who knows.

i get to pull myself up by the bootstraps all the time ... there's noone else around to do it for me :)

i do plan to charge for my services. how much? who knows at this point.