One Angry Man Who Said it For Everyone

I was looking through my old e-emails yesterday - clearing out 2009, really - when I came across something that I'd received from a very old friend last April who had just started up on his own. I can't quote it all - but I think what I can quote says it all about being middle-aged, middle-management, and redundant:

...as you can see after years of working for morons and idiots I decided I wanted some say as to my future. After being made redundant for the 4th time in my life I realised I was fed up with people deciding my future and fate behind closed doors.

I did absolutely nothing for the first six months and looked at just about everything other than credit control! Finally it hit me that I knew nothing other so I started to channel my efforts into a subject that I at least has some knowledge of...

The e-mail went on to talk about the Company he had set up, his website, and the fact that although he had originally set out to do outsource credit control he was getting other kinds of work - primarily debt collection - and that his new clients were sticking with him. 'I must be doing something right', he said at the time.

I'd say so, too. He's now been trading successfully for eight months plus in a cut-throat market that has seen other, much larger, organisations in the same trade go to the wall.

I don't want to mention his name, but you can see his website by clicking on the link.

Age, skill, and experience are valuable. Don't waste yours.

Geoff - http://www.metlissbarfield.com