No Availability

Jul 29, 2022

In this episode, I discuss how I started out my self-employed journey 13 years ago (summer of 2009).

1. Spoke with friends of my who were independent consultants
2. Found Client #1
3. Left full time job in August 2009
4. Started working on a project for Client #1
   1. Tracked hours in Excel
   2. Notes about work in paper notebook...

Jul 22, 2022

In this episode, I cover some differences between being a full-time employee and a self-employeed professional.

1. Fulltime employee (FTE) career development
   1. Get good at what you do
      1. Often happens by "sharpening the saw" on your own time
   2. Often get more responsibility for what you are good at
      1. Don't always get to...

Jul 15, 2022

In this episode, I interview my good friend Robert Hurlbut to discuss some topics relevant to being a self employed consultant.

• Background story
• Developer
• Moved Security focus last 9 - 10 years
• Now not developing for work
• Helping developers with secure code and threat modeling
• Have been independent and consultant...

Jul 15, 2022

In this episode, I cover my own experience of income as a self employed professional and relevant topics.

1. Set stage of a fulltime income
   1. $100k a year$3,500 every 2 weeks like clock work
   2. Direct deposit into your personal account
2. Mention Salary vs. Hourly - more on this in a couple of episodes
   1. 15 minutes...

Jul 12, 2022

Welcome to the No Availability podcast.

This episode is juat an introduction to the podcast - so no interviews, no key advice shared in this one. I'm just going to cover the basics:

• Name of the podcast
• Who I think the target audience is
• My current thoughts on what the podcast will be
• A little bit about who I am