Archive for 'Business'

My Brief Observations on The Changing Generational Views on Vocation and Calling

As I’ve been making my way in the realm of the self employed, I’ve had cause to stop and consider the different ways and means by which people make a living. Just the other day, I made an interesting obvervation concerning how the generational view on employment has seemed to change. When discussing what someone’s [...]

April Update: Added 4 More to the List of Online Time Tracking Services Useful for Independent Contractors

(March 2011 Update: I’ve added 11 more to the raw list of possible tools to use for time tracking. These tools range from barebones time tracking to also including tons of other features including invoicing. Some are apps that you install, some are web based. This is merely a raw list and not a review [...]

My Adventures with Time Tracking: Whittling Down the List Part 1

Way back in March, I asked some of my Tweeps for advice on how they kept track of their time to be able to bill clients. From that and some of my own research I was able to make a decent list of potential time tracking tools to use as I forge ahead with independent contracting. [...]

Creating an IT business in the USA, Episode 2: Live Your convictions!

I’ve done it! I’ve successfully created a Single Member LLC in the great state of Arizona! w00t!!!1! Okay… sooooo… now what? If you recall in the first part of the first episode of this series over on my old blog and the second part of the first episode posted on this blog, my direction when [...]

Creating an IT business in the USA, Episode 1: Stop… rewind!

In my previous posts concerning my efforts at starting an IT business in my new home state of Arizona (Episode 0, part 1 and part 2), I had decided that a simple sole proprietorship was the way to go. However, I began to reconsider that course of action when I realized the liabilities involved in [...]