Graham jumps in at the deep end
Last year I decided to work less and profit from life more. I reduced my time to 90% but worked that 90% over 4 days instead of five. It was a good arrangement because my wife, who works at 90% anyway, synchronized her working week with mine and we shared long weekends for most of 2007.
She is changing employers at the end of the month however and her new bosses prefer her to be present each day of the week. The long weekend idyll is almost over.
Change is good. Resisting change is futile. I’m embracing this opportunity to restructure.
For a while now I’ve been active professionally outside of my day job, mainly to assist NGOs and friends in their web activities and have often turned away opportunities.
I’ve decided to change that and to freelance part-time and this post marks the change from then to now and beyond.
I’m currently working on an identity for my new status and leading up to a launch. I’m very excited about having two jobs and the synergies I will be enjoying between my various activities. I think there is a niche for what I can offer and my business and management studies are going to come in very useful indeed (at last). I will probably learn as much about building a business as doing the business itself but I’m going to have fun and it will be recreational rather than essential. That is a good place to be. Don’t you agree?
