How long have you been self-employed?

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jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 4:19 pm Post subject: How long have you been self-employed?
I just realized yesterday that I have been my own boss for more than 5 years I think if randomaly asked I might have guessed 4, doesn't time fly when you are not being told what to do

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 4:22 pm Post subject:
Err... 4 years 5 months

hedgewitch

Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Posts: 5834
Location: Daft wench GHQ

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 4:23 pm Post subject:
I year and 23 days, and still in business. It's flown by. Apart from the bits where it went really slowly and my whole life flashed in front of me, of course. But I got used to that after a few months.

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 4:23 pm Post subject:
I had my first business account at 15 and have been running something businessy on and off ever since, usually in a very small way though with the odd break of a couple of years. Never been wholly self employed, but hope to change that in the not too far distant future

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 4:28 pm Post subject:
Since 1992 I've been self employed all the time apart from 2 years. I prefer being in charge of my life.

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 4:32 pm Post subject:
For the last seventeen years. I've downsized and been doing this for about three years now, and as my life has slowed down, so has the speed at which time passes, thank goodness, because the fourteen years before that flew by. I did start trading when I was about 8 selling my father's garden rhubarb at the roadside, and moved on to selling leeks and cauliflowers up untill I left school.

cinders

Joined: 04 Jun 2007
Posts: 2437
Location: norfolk The daft old bat club

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 4:41 pm Post subject:
Hope to be there one day With the help of downsizer and lots of great ideas i hope it won't be long

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 5:12 pm Post subject:
As an actor, all my life but as an actor I've also worked for others in anyone of 100 different jobs! I haven't been a waitress or worked a bar in 9 years so I suppose I'd say 9 years totally self employed.

gil
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 5:17 pm Post subject:
Almost 13 months this time round, though I freelanced for about 10 years in the 80s/90s.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 5:23 pm Post subject:
I think I've been self-employed for about 8 years, but, like woodsprite, I've done part-time work for other people suring that time. Now I don't do anything 'professional' I think of myself more as self-unemployed!

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 6:35 pm Post subject:
1 year, 2 months and 3 weeks to the day Happy, happy, happy.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 6:38 pm Post subject:
Since 1st March 1990. Do I win the prize?

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 6:51 pm Post subject:
Me - about five years, I just kind of slipped in to it. Arvo - 1992.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 6:57 pm Post subject:
Not yet! Although like Sally, I generally have a bit on the side on the go. Working on it. Himself has been self employed for 2 years now, and is thriving on it (although somehow we seem to have lost holidays somewhere - it doesn't bother me too much though)

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 07 7:00 pm Post subject:
ummmm..... on the 18th aug, it will be 10 months that rolf and i went for it don't regret it yet

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