Or: Why work 8 hours/day for someone else when you can
work 16 hours/day for yourself?
I've been a consultant of one form or another since 1985 when I started
my old company, V-Systems, with a friend from college, and actually did
bits and pieces of consulting as early as 1982. I have been asked often
about the business, and I decided to write this up.
Please note that I am providing observations from my own personal
experience, but I am not providing tax or legal advice. You need
to pay somebody for that, and I'm not qualified.
Furthermore, I am not even attempting to make this a comprehensive
guide for everything required by one in or contemplating the
consulting business. I am purposely omitting whole areas,
such as licensure, insurance, and negotiating — there are other
books for that, and this isn't trying to be one of them.
These sections (except the last) aren't in any particular order.
This is a pretty good introduction to consulting, from a guy with plenty of experience, and a low dork handicap.
