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Independence Day

Big week. It’s a great day to hang out by the pool with friends and family and enjoy some homemade food. That’s what I’ll be doing today. It’ll be a fantastic close to what will hopefully be a milestone week in our family’s life.

When It Pours, It's Obviously Raining

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At the beginning of June I wrote about the ebb and flow of client work all coming in at once. I wrote the following thinking it wouldn’t prove true: I look forward to testing the theory in another 6 weeks.

When It Rains, It Pours

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Ever since I started “making technology work” I’ve held a side business of my own. I started performing in-home technology support when I was 17 and my side work has an ebb and flow to it. It’s ranged from single handedly supporting a school on my two days off while I worked at Apple to just being on-call and supporting a handful of clients when something broke. The side work always seems to come and go at just the right time for me to be able to provide the level of support that I expect if I’m charging for it. For the last two years the latter has been the extent of my side business due to the needs of my day job.