Well my business plans are ever changing. I’ve now concluded that I may be able to work on computers after all. By setting up monthly maintenance plans with clients, I will be able to start creating reliable and predictable regular income, and be able to work on computers in a more controlled environment where I’m not dealing with systems AFTER they have had a major catastrophe. Plus, by seeing most of my clients on a regular basis, it increases my availability to additional work or projects in the future. I went and got one of those aluminum contractor’s clipboards and a special notebook to start keeping better track of my customers and their history. My plan is to design a “data sheet” for each client where I can keep track of the specs of each of their computers and it’s maintenance history. This way I can make better suggestions on how to proceed in there is a problem in the future. Scary huh?!
I’m still waiting on a couple of other employment offers that are located a lot closer to home. I hate the idea of leaving the company I’m at now as they have been very nice to me and I do like the work but I still have to take care of my family and my own personal well-being. The fact is that, even when working only 4-10’s, I have calculated true total weekly working hours to be 60 if I include the commute. 4 hours on the road for 10 hours of work and 1 hour for lunch. That’s 15 hours a day times 4 days! Working a 5-8’s week brings that up to 65 hours a week so even though the 4-10’s schedule seems harsh, I am still working 5 hours less a week that before. Now if I manage to land another position that’s closer to home, I may not be able to negotiate a 4-10’s schedule with them (and most likely not at first at least). But being closer to home means that I may still have more time to work my own business plans in the evenings and weekends. I’ve even applied for a position back working on aircraft at Edwards AFB! That would put me at 20 min from work instead of 2 hours. I can definitely deal with that.
So my 3-month business plan goal has been to grow from 3 companies to 12 that I do business with. In the first month, I would say I lost 2 of the 3 that I already had -but they are just more in a “dormant” state right now as there just isn’t any business going on with them currently. Business owners who are struggling with debt payments may consider using Strategic Debt Planning services.
But I’ve also gained a company and am starting to collect prospective maintenance plan clients that could count for an additional “company”. So I could realistically say that I now am at 5 companies so far. That’s not bad considering that was over the holidays. I also have yet to get my business license but that’s in works with https://china.acclime.com/. Candi and I are also looking into business card designs.