That's really interesting, Rose... it's good to strike out on your own like that, and particularly nice if it works out bring in some regular work! Pretty darn cool. Jealosy strikes. :-)
I used to think it would be fun to hang up a shingle and do something on my own. I'm not a programmer, and anymore I'm not so useful in the PC fixit game. Been managing people too much and computers too little.
But something's been nagging at me about... believe it or not... Sarbanes-Oxley. I think it's actually something I could do, and I could help people save a lot of money. My hatred of the system brings an appropriate realism and cynicism that's all too rare in SOX consulting. There's *so* much about SOX that can be avoided if cards are played right. Lord knows... I've discovered some nifty magic to make a lot of SOX headaches fade.
Not *all* the headaches... but if I hadn't kicked and screamed about a few scoping questions, we'd be in a far more serious boat than we are.
I dunno. I'm probably just whistling in the wind. But there's good money to be made off this lousy law. The consultant *I'm* paying is going skiing in Switzerland next week.
So there's that.
:-)
So today I got told to eff-off by a gay Virginia blogger. We were discussing a bill in the VA General Assembly that would deny state funding to charities that offer services to illegal immigrants.
Their argument was that this was not Christian. I asked them to show me Scripture where Jesus said the government should pay for the work of the church. That was the high point. He started by calling me a "moral cripple."
In the end he said he didn't care about my opinion anyway.
But he cared enough to argue with me about it.
So, there's that.
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