If there’s one drawback to this freelancing for a small company stuff it’s that it can be fairly overwhelming at times. I’m currently sitting in the office watching Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 slowly install on this machine I just rebuilt for a major local furniture retailer. This is the most I’ve sat still all day. Once this is done, which will be any moment now, I’ll be taking it over to the world headquarters of the client and dropping it off. On the way back through towards home I’ll be stopping by the home of a client to help them figure out what their WEP key for their wireless router is so they can set up their new laptop to work with it. That’ll likely be a freebie visit as there’s no real work involved beyond showing them how to find their WEP key in their router’s settings. Then it’s onto home for the day. In all I’ll get in a good 7 hours or so today of billable time which isn’t a bad way to start the week. Got an 8AM tomorrow morning and then who knows what’ll come next. It feels good to be working at least a little and putting my skill set to use, but I still worry about the near future. Unless the business picks up considerably I’m going to have to find more permanent work someplace with benefits. It’s only a matter of time before one of us gets sick and needs to see a doctor.
Still, one day at a time. One day at a time…
Posted on 07/05/2005 at 11:34 PM 
Mmmh, I can understand that its a pretty unsteady and therefore insecure way to earn the money. But is it so badly paid?