I've talked to lots of people about self employment since I embarked on this 'journey'. Many are in the stage of actively looking for ideas to become self employed and searching for business ideas. The process of coming up with a suitable self employment idea may take months, and sometimes a few years. This depends on how focused you are at finding that idea to make a plan with.
For instance, at a morning seminar for entrepreneurs at a city law firm, I bumped into a recent graduate from INSEAD (the prestigious postgraduate business school in Paris) who was there to look for someone to partner up with. I was surprised that he didn't have any ideas as to what he wanted to do apart from 'IT'.
On another occasion, also a networking event, this time at City Hall, I met a young entrepreneur who used to work for one of the major mobile phone service providers. He's written a software programme that checks business mobile phones for personal calls and calls made after official working hours. When I spoke to him, he'd already negotiated 2 contracts worth about £2000 per month to 2 business owners who had over 1000 staff mobile phones at the event. He's got a very lucrative self employment plan through his experience from working for others.
My point is, it's a good idea to keep you eyes and ears open whether you are at work or at play. Maintain focus on your self employment plan. You never know when a brilliant self employment idea will come around.
I've started a notebook/journal to jot down any ideas I might have, contacts that might be useful or website that have good self employment information.
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