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The art of billing
It seems like such a simple task for a contractor; bill for the hours you worked. In my profession and how my brain operates, defining "work" is not easy. My brain doesn't have an on/off switch so at the end of the day, if I was working on something, even if I walk away from the computer, I may still be thinking about it. Same goes for when I run, especially if I'm working on a hard problem.
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Review: On The Job - Time Tracking for the Mac
Before I became self-employed again. I looked for a time tracking application. I tried one on the iPad which was a complete waste of money. So, I decided to go back to time tracking on my Mac. At least I could evaluate the programs before buying. Over the years, I never found a program that I liked and eventually wrote my own little app. For various reasons, I was tracking time outside of QuickBooks (which I was using for account for my family's LLC) and always ended up recording time and then generating invoices in QuickBooks. At that time, I didn't need an app that also did invoicing, so finding a simple app was difficult. Now that things are different and I wanted to do invoicing in the time tracking app, finding the right tool became easier.
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Three months of self employment
It's now been 3 months since I left my job and became self employed. As I wrote after my first month of being self employed, things are still going quite well. I really like my projects and even though I was recently put on a rush project, I like being able to show something for what I do every day. It should have been no surprise to me that enjoying work affects my whole life, but it is quite easy to forget it as I've been wrapped up in my work for my entire career.
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Review: Syma S107 RC Helicopter
As a child, I had RC (radio controlled) cars a few times and enjoyed playing with them. However, they ate batteries like no tomorrow and since they weren't rechargeable, play time was quite short. Years later, the battery technology has gotten a lot better and rechargeable batteries are in almost everything. As an adult, I've owned an RC Hummer and an RC hovercraft, but have never owned a helicopter. I've always been fascinating with them; however, I never made the leap into owning one.