Being self-employed is a roller coaster
full of dizzying highs and anxious lows. I have find it essential to
record the highs as a resource to battle the lows. After 2 years of
self-employment it seems to be paying off and I'm a little more
relaxed when I hit a slow period or suffer a setback.
This is a post about the previous 24 hours that have been one of the many highs that remind me that being self-employed is my way of 'Living The Dream'.
24 hours ago I was sat in my new office
which I love already. It is a Victorian workshop off the cobbled
Iliffe Yard most famously used in film 'The King's Speech'. My
girlfriend had popped over for a late lunch and was chilling on our
sofa taking in the art hung on the walls. Meanwhile I was working on
a proposal to enhance audience engagement with Europe's largest
programme of cultural events through gamification.
At 6:30pm, running late, I rushed off to
The Miller at the foot of London's Shard to host my monthly RaspberryPint meetup - a group of fascinating people, talking about tech I
love, in one of my favourite local pubs. Just before 11pm I jumped on
a train with one of my oldest friends, who'd attended the meet up, to
stay at his house half an hour North of London and catch up with him
and his girlfriend and also to see his new 3D printer and awesome first person view flyers :).
In the morning I finished off my
proposal, recorded an accompanying video and made my submission a
full 8 minutes before the deadline at noon. That gave me a full 2
hours to have lunch, buy my buddy a thanks-for-the-stay gift and calm
down a bit.
A short stroll up a country lane then
took me to my day's big meeting to talk to a company about selling
some of my bespoke software through their network of resellers in
Europe, North America and Australasia. The guy behind the company was
fantastic and I came away full of excitement about our partnership
and a couple of immediate opportunities. The end of my 24 hours came
as I sat in a pub talking to a Professor from Cranfield University
about a NATO CSO workshop I am organising.
For me this was a 24 hours that I was
really Living The Dream.
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