How many of us are..?
 

Self-employed? I've been since 1996.

Teach English for business.

Use the studio to make a lot of audio materials, but most of my work is stand up comedy in front of people.

Had a recording job last week recording read passages from client's presentation notes but had to stop every 20 secs or so. Never eat cheese and onion crisps 5 mins before a take. Thank god for Sonar and slip editing. What's that called in Cubase?

I was a contractor all last year.
Was nice, but one of the companies that I contracted for made me an
offer I couldn't refuse.

One thing I miss is being able to take time off whenever I wanted!

I am self employed. Had an offer from a current client to go 'employed' - I refused and they offered me the job as a self employed consultant anyhow :)

I guess they had to try it on eh :)

I am fully booked now until the end of 2007 :)

Yeah I've had a few offers in my time. I sold the cars and started a 3 day week 5 years ago so that I could take the kids to school every day. I was the only parent that was there. Before that I was doing 6 day weeks, mad hours, making a shit-load, big house, 2 cars and that. That's OK, but didn't have any plan. Now I work 3 days and make same money but smaller expenses.

Kids old enough now to get to school on their own and I'm 45 and thinking about getting a boat, so it's watch out world.

Hey OVM - how did that recording job go you embarked on recently?

John mate. Went well. I did my best Stuart Hall impression. It's here if you want a laugh..

http://www.snapdrive.net/files/10505...ll%20comms.wav

They cut it down to 20 secs on the ad.

;-)
Matt

PS wav not mp3 so it'll take a while to dl

I 'downshifted' myself 3 years ago from full time employment in IT to home consultancy. Moved to another city, less money, less hassles yet more money for the important things in life - including a virus. I'm 50 but should have done this years ago.

Cheers,
B

Oh ffs sakes Psymon. Fewer hassles. At our age there's really no excuse for grammar like that.
Unless you're fucking retarded.

BR
Matt

FFS indeed, which part of "Teach English for business" did I not understand? Please except my humble apologies ;)

B

Ah, it's OK. Welcome to OT.