I have a LLC through which I bill my own time, and wanted to expose any blind spots in my future plans.
I've been doing it for 4 years, with 2 gaps of about 0.2 years each between clients.
I actually work a salaried job three days per week, this is for the other two
I consult with the same skill set; Principal ML Engineer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rittermatthew/) with a domain expertise in healthcare.
I've thus far taken only one client at time, it seems unlikely I'd do parallel.two
I've considered hiring an assistant, but have no interest in really scaling
I'm based in the Boston suburbs (comment if you want to meet up - always interested in like-minded neighbors!) but have worked from my home office.
Besides my first client, 100% of my leads have come from former co-workers at my first job.
I'm 36 and no relevant health issues. I should exercise more, but eat fairly well.
I've never come anywhere close to being sued
I'm just starting a medium-sized contract at a new client. They just raised $20M, and have indicated there's plenty I could help with if this goes well.
It's always competing against the option of going full-time at my salaried job, so my "reserve bid" for fees is moderately high.
Failure would be defined as <$10,000 net income for a trailing 12 month period, unless I'm intentionally developing a product.
This market has a high probabliity of resolving N/A (no failure), so as long as it's running I'll add liquidity by gifting Mana to people who make big bids and/or interesting comments/questions (I'd be flush, after all!)
1,000@osmarks Thanks! Let's put that under "Economy: ZIRP". I got so many leads during the first three years that I think having 12 months of zero (good) leads would necessarily have come from an underlying economic shift.
Thanks for asking a clarifying question, a Mana Link! https://manifold.markets/link/qrdtnznD (is there a better way to do this? I see people saying that they've gifted Mana and assumed it would be easy once I looked for the functionality)