[Baypiggies] Thoughts on starting a career as a consultant?

[John Withers]

On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 22:02 -0700, Paul McNett wrote:

> When you are a consultant working off site, there is nobody managing you, so you need 
> to manage yourself. You may be saying "well, duh" but this has been my greatest 
> struggle: staying on task, and staying billable.

+1

Hands down my largest work problem when I am working on my own. Not
taxes, health insurance, late billing, getting clients or anything else.
My productivity is about halved if I am working for long periods of time
on my own. 

-john