I did some weights yesterday, after having been a weight-training slacker for a while, and I have the sore muscles today to remind me of it.
I’m heading out early to the farmers’ market with Fine Soprano, and then I have a meeting with Client #2 before I settle down with Client #6’s work.
I downloaded the pianist’s choice of arrangements for Duke Ellington’s “Come Sunday” for my solo this Sunday, and I have to get it over to her. It is quite high, so I may have to throw in some actual practice time somewhere, too.
I also have some website fooling around to do.
As those who keep track of my ridiculous dithering will remember, I have yet to commit myself sufficiently to self-employment to order business cards. I can’t call on potential clients without something to give them. I have to make a web site before I can make business cards, since us computer guys can’t have cards without a web site. I can’t even email potential clients and ask for a meeting without a web site. And I am reaching the point at which I will need more contract work or a salaried job, one or the other.
I still have some employment fantasies. One involves Client #6 keeping me on quarter time on a permanent basis. The weekly calls in which I must justify my existence have made this seem unlikely. Another employment fantasy involves Client #2 hiring me on a steady basis. Quarter time would do there, too. He can’t afford this, though, so that also seems unlikely. I have turned down several management job offers by now, and I haven’t actually received any teaching offers, so I may be inching closer to actual self-employment.
I have reached the point at which my inner debates on the subject are boring for me, so I won’t continue boring you with them here.
Maybe Fine Soprano will have some hints for me about high notes.
Your inner debates are never boring. But your situation has to be worrisome; here’s hoping things come together for you soon.
just print up some cards on the computer with your phone number & name already!
@illgrindmyownthankyou – Here’s the thing about business cards: I can’t present myself as a computer guy without a web site. I can’t make business cards without a web address on them. And I was actually planning to arrange a web site for myself today when I met with Client #2 but he had some revolutionary new technology going on, and I got distracted.
Any day now, though.