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Thanks for the ideas! This is exactly what I was looking to hear more about. I'm going to have to think more about those questions. The only thing keeping me f

Thanks for the ideas! This is exactly what I was looking to hear more about. I'm going to have to think more about those questions. The only thing keeping me from treating the consulting differently is that the product business is something that I can work on when I have time and put on the back-burner if it's really needed and still have it generate passive income. Not so much with clients and deadlines. For the money thing, I've saved up about a year of living expenses, but I don't want to dip into it. Ever. I've heard this gets harder if you're not single, but I have high hopes :).

lsemel 18y ago
Don't take tiny bits of work that are due in two days. But if it's a bigger piece of software, you can tell them "It'll be ready in 6 weeks" then you'll have time to do it on your own schedule, assuming you really don't need 6 weeks fulltime to do it. And set up a time limit, and a high rate, for maintenance and bug fixes, so they don't keep calling you six months later to add this or change that.