I can only speak for me, and it has been feast since I went out on my own Feb 1st last year. So far this year, the feast is even better as there is very little agency work so I get 100% of the billables. :) Yes, I am complaining all the way to the bank. If it gets any better, MBS is going to want a referral fee or commission!
Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com<http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: NT Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:31:45 +0000 To: NT Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: OT - ugh! That’s part of my fear of dropping %dayjob% and going 100% on my own biz – feast or famine! With just three clients I have I’m always amazed at how often their feast/famine cycles coincide, and they even have different fiscal year cycles. I mean, in the span of two months I am doing an SBS 2003 – SBS2011 swing for two of them. One of these clients I can go months with nothing other than patching. From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - ugh! I find myself busier than a one-arm paper hanger in a wind storm. Don't know why it took me so long to convince MBS that I should go solo! LOL Now that my fellow CTPs know I can spell AD, I am finding myself doing a lot of AD assessments, assisting with AD migrations and putting in 2008 R2 AD infrastructures. I would say I am now 50% AD and 50% Citrix. I no longer do Exchange and refer all that to MBS. I can't believe how much Citrix work I turn down because I just don't have the time. Right now I am tentatively booked thru the end of July and already starting to worry because no one is calling about August or September yet! :) Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com<http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: NT Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:53:32 +0000 To: NT Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: OT - ugh! I ran as a contractor through a managed services company for about six years before taking the plunge myself. Whereas now I find myself counting the amount of extra tax I spent the last six years paying in disgust. It may have been the aforementioned man-in-Alaska mentioning how he could work for 48 hours a day once he'd struck out on his own that possibly contributed to convincing me to do the same. On 6 February 2012 15:47, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I put off starting my own business for YEARS because I was afraid of what I already knew. :-) Whereas, in retrospect, I wish I'd done it much earlier. I can think of someone else on this mailing list (who is in Alaska this week) who waited even longer than I did. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
