I think that is a great idea. I own an LLC that does webhosting for Churches. I bought the clients from my old company this last summer after 8 years of off and on employment with them. It is a website builder built in CF so my "side job" is taking care of that plus all the accounting, customer service etc.
All this on top of a full-time gig which in itself is like running a business because there are only 3 of us... I just don't have to worry about the paycheck and the sales.. oh and insurance is provided for my family which helps. I am slowly building the side stuff up and have a goal that by 2009 I am fully self-employed. BTW I love the list idea, so I created one! http://groups.google.com/group/business-side-of-the-web Come on and join. I have made it a members only group just for privacy reasons. Don't want clients to be able to Google us talking bad about them :-) J.J. On 12/9/07, Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been in business now for pretty much the past 5 years with a couple of > on site contracts sprinkled in. A month and a half ago I made my first hire > and Friday I put out local ads for a second CF/.Net developer. > > Anyone who tells you owning your own business is all gory and fun is full of > crap. Its hard work and instead of answering to one or two supervisors I > answer to multiple clients each thinking they should be my only priority. > For me, tho the benefits of owning my own company is that 1) there are zero > jobs in my local that require my skills so I invented my own, and 2) my > company will be as successful as I make it. > > It would be really cool if there was an email list for all of us who have > our own businesses had an email list to ask each other questions about > business related stuff. > > > Duane > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 12:48 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Who's in business for themselves > > Hey guys, > > > > Who's in business for themselves? This whole issue with my contract going > away in December has gotten me thinking about going into business for > myself. > > Is anyone having success at it, How much of a PITA is it > > > > Rewards. > > Pitfalls.. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > sas > > > > -- > > Scott Stewart > > ColdFusion Developer > > > > SSTWebworks > > 4405 Oakshyre Way > > Raleigh, NC. 27616 > > (703) 220-2835 > > > > http://www.sstwebworks.com > > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sstwebworks> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/sstwebworks > > > > Boycott Sys-Con > <http://www.sstwebworks.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/16/Boycotting-SysCon> > > http://www.sstwebworks.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/16/Boycotting-SysCon > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:248013 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
