... Within a week of starting I’d found my first contract job and I managed to find another before that one ran out and so on. Little by little I managed to build up a reputation for delivering the goods and I got more and more work by referral.

At some point this led me to having more work than I could reasonably be expected to perform and I increased my prices to match. In 1995 I hired my first employee, by 2000 it was up to 25 employees in two offices.

This was the first time I realised that my desire for freedom had led me straight back to having less freedom than I had when I started this whole saga!

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