Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Starting in freelance in the UK, is that complex or not?

[crm250]

Tonio, am in exactly the same boat myself. I am a network admin and have a great team and we all get on well, apart from the new boss who is someone's mate's brothers uncles dogs neighbor and the guy is a complete yogurt.
There are big shakeups at the moment in our co, and i am hoping for vol redundancy as i have been there for 15 years. I want to try it alone too, and with contacts i have made over the years i am sure i can support many smaller localish companys and earn a sallary just specialising in security, AD, exchange server, routing / VPN work etc etc hell i would even return back to desktop support if the money was there if needed.
Hope it all works out for you and like yourself next year is going to be a testing one i think

[Tonio600]

Simon, very interresting post. I wrote a big answer to it but forgot to post it and closed my browser I'll archive that post...

Dibble, cheers for the offer mate. I think I must speak to a few people before going further (my boss and my mother actually ). But I may have a few questions for you after the holidays...

crm250, hope it will work for you. I think our cases are slightly different as I'm in the UK since 1 year and if I'd do that now, the only customer for me I can think for the moment would be my current boss. I need to make me known

[ali]

You have mail at your yahoo.co.uk address....

[Tonio600]

was good to re-read that

[Zimbo16]

Go for it Tonio, if you're good at what you do you shouldn't have much trouble getting enough work in. You need to be able to market yourself or have someone to do it for you, it's not that hard though, there's so many incompetant muppets out there and it's easy to get work by just being competent and organised. I've been self employed the last couple of years (though not in IT), I've never worked so hard or so many hours, but I wouldn't go back unless I had to, no way!
As to being VAT registered, look into the flat rate scheme, you get to claim your vat back without complex paperwork etc, worked well for me for a while!
Good luck . . . .

[Tonio600]

Cheers mate
Looks like I'll have to get in touch with my sponsor to talk something else than bikes.

[Zimbo16]

Actually, just reading some of the replies above and I thought Marchisini's advice was absolutely spot - on!!!