**** it

[suityou01]

That's it. I'm starting an internet business. Then I can spend my days at home, see more of the kids. The financial doom knackered London so I've had to work away from home. It is getting me down.

I've learned a lot recently about SEO and I was a code monkey by trade (a chuffing good one I seem to recall) so all that Paypal stuff should be a doddle. I've got start up capital and bags of enthusiam.

Now, what to sell (scratches head) - Definately no sex industry related stuff.

I put it to the panel. (In the back of my mind semi jokingly thinking Reggie Perrin and grot shops)

[HairyArsedBloke]

Well done. Join the club.

Ideas, try this one I found yesterday.

[suityou01]

Sorted. I will sell sea mammal cleaning kits.

Boomed!

[d000hg]

I left work as a permie to be a contractor only based on being able to work from home, not because of hating permie lifestyle otherwise, or money. Until I accidentally ended up leading a team and being a PM, I was simply contracting remotely doing the same kind of things as before.

Why not consider that as an option before making such a massive change?

[BrowneIssue]

That's it. I'm starting an internet business.

Eh?

I thought you'd only been contracting about 5 minutes. I'm sure I remember answering a newbie question for you last year.

Checks...

No. My mistake. Only a newbie on here.

[suityou01]

Eh?

I thought you'd only been contracting about 5 minutes. I'm sure I remember answering a newbie question for you last year.

Checks...

No. My mistake. Only a newbie on here.

Correct, only a noob on here. I have worked in IT since 97, but was a hardcore geek as a kid. Really I have devoted my life to code monkeying. It's not that I'm fed up with contracting, I like that. If I could just get gigs where people handed me an F-Spec and said write the T-Spec and get your team of code monkeys to code that lot up I would be a happy man.

It's the reality that gets me down time to time. Working away. The whole anti contractor thing, permies get me down. Let's not document or share knowledge and try and make the contractor look like a numpty approach. Or the "let's rush and code at 90 miles an hour, cutting corners, with no design, that'll work".

Life's imperfect I know, but as my third child is due in 5 weeks it kind of made me think it was time for a change. I mean, I'm not saying I will stop contracting, but with a decent plan B ticking over I can pick and choose more, and even work from home.

Anywho, I think I have an idea of what to sell and to whom so that's a start. A good brainstorming session last night with Mrs Suityou01.

Now all I have to think about is where to store the stock, or whether to store the stock at all.

[HairyArsedBloke]

You're going to hate working in a small business even more. You'll spend even less of your time doing techie stuff as marketing, bookeeping, etc will take up most of your time. Cutting corners (=costs) is a way of life. You'll spend even less time with your family.

Sorry.

[minestrone]

I ditched my contract in Febuary to work on plan b, it began has a hobby thing a couple of years ago and the application just grew and grew. IT will be going live in a couple of weeks but seing the way AtW gets around here with SKA there is no way I would be posting the site on here.

The site will make money I am sure of that but how much I do not know, I think there is a small chance it could be very big but if it pulls in 30,000 -> 40,000 a year I would be happy with that. I hate working and if I got that for doing nothing then I could keep my investments intact.

The main problem is that you cannot just switch of a 5:30 like a normal job, it takes up a great deal of my time and when I am not working I am thinking about it. I have not played my xbox in about half a year, my piano is also pretty much untouched.

HAB is right, it takes up too much time and the next few months I will be marketing the thing like crazy.

[SantaClaus]

I'm quite happy to work 24/7 on my plan B, because it's something I enjoy.
I'm often working until 1 am and on weekends.

It was working on a dull maintenance project for a bank that was killing me.

[Platypus]

The site will make money I am sure of that but how much I do not know, I think there is a small chance it could be very big

Best of luck - my big idea plan B - estimated to make a lot of money - turned into Plan 9 from Outer Space