"Jim" wrote in message news:1mRYa.98327$Ho3.13006@sccrnsc03...
basskisser, you must have missed my last question to you when you were talking about
your engineering consulting business. How long have you been on your own? Was it
difficult to start up?

Thanks.

Sorry, Jim, I thought I responded, perhaps it didn't post:
I've been on my own for four years now. It wasn't too difficult for
me, because I basically work for the same people that I worked for
previously. I'd worked hard for them, and they in turn, promised to
give me work when I went out on my own. I in turn, made a gentleman's
agreement with them that I wouldn't do any engineering work for
anybody that was in direct competition with them. I do odds and ends
for some local firms that do retail building, but I don't do any work
for engineering companies that bid directly against the company I
worked for, in the large industrial arena. So, I guess I'm saying, I
think it would be harder, somewhat, if you didn't have a prior
employer to contract work from. But, there is work out there.