I’ve had a few weeks off nursing a damaged collar-bone however now lastly I can handle two-hand typing I’m prepared for this weblog.
As I lay on a forest ground in agony ready for an ambulance I had three hours to assume. And naturally it wasn’t all the time glad ideas.
Unable to maneuver with out an unbelievable searing ache in my shoulder and neck, I began questioning what this meant for work.
In over 4 years working for myself I’ve by no means been ailing, not correctly. Even a brief bout of COVID in 2021 barely stopped me working.
However this seemed prefer it may.
At a very unhealthy time; my busiest – after I’m scouting for startups for the accelerator programme I run.
Would I’ve to remain in hospital? Have an operation? Be forged up? I pictured myself in a type of neck braces.
Undoubtedly unable to journey across the UK to fulfill startups in April as deliberate.
And what was worse was seeing – and sensing – my spouse’s nervousness. She was nervous for me in fact. However she was additionally nervous about our livelihood.
I’m very glass half-full. I additionally imagine this life I’m residing is by far and away higher than the one I left behind at BP.
Nevertheless it’s not with out danger.
I’ve misplaced the protection web of an employer.
Thankfully, my catastrophising didn’t play out, and after a bumpy journey to A&E, an X-ray and a fast test by a guide I used to be in my very own mattress with some codeine and a sling.
One groggy day post-morphine and I used to be again to work speaking to startups. No-one would have observed other than the sling.
And my purchasers have all been great. Behaving identical to the perfect sort of employer.
However some well-paid consultancy with a brand new shopper needed to be cancelled as I wasn’t as much as being grilled as an ‘knowledgeable’ for 3 hours. Two weeks later they nonetheless haven’t confirmed a rescheduled assembly. So that will have price me some future income.
So it’s actual the affect.
I by no means need to paint this life as a dream and my outdated one as a nightmare as a result of neither is true nor truthful. Each have execs and cons.
A few weeks on, I’m in fact again to ‘regular’, together with how I really feel about working for myself.
Nevertheless it’s been a wake-up name.
I usually say I really feel like I’m working in actual enterprise now, extra uncovered sure, but in addition actually feeling the ups and downs of enterprise.
That evening was positively a down.
And it gained’t be the final.
However I got here by way of it.
No regrets nonetheless; no need to return.
No want to commerce all the advantages of this life simply to really feel protected by another person.
I’m my very own security web.
