- It is a risk to set up your own business >
It is a risk to set up your own business; to jump away from that monthly pay cheque that lands into your account and pays the bills for you, and it’s a big jump to go from there to actually running your own business.
It’s also quite comfortable to be sitting at home on your own working on a single project for someone else. I remember, I was working on a project for a Canadian company for a little over 18 months. I was working by myself in my kitchen and it was going quite successfully.
When the project was finished though, and I owned the intellectual property of that project, I made a very quick decision to then take on staff, open an office, sort my phone lines out, set up my company registration certificates, and all the processes involved in registering your business.
Although it was a risk to go from a position of having outgoings which were quite low to having outgoings which included other people’s mortgages, I think I probably did it because of boredom. I was bored as a consultant with one client and I felt I could continue and sign up some more.
What I wanted was a business, where I would have the challenges of managing it and running staff, and in addition I wanted to ability to jump between projects that were both interesting and complicated.
I think that working on one project for a long time can drive you crazy, but having several different projects and having lots of things to juggle- to me that’s an exciting prospect.
Ross CooneyRozmic Wireless
