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Well it seems I've been dropped to 3 days per week - and the pay decrease doesn't look very good at all. I'm sort of in two minds about this drop, the money is a b*****d but the spare time I'll have will allow me to get a lot of things sorted out.

To make my money up I'm trying to go self employed for 2-4 days of the week if the business is there - preferably in network setup, XP support and SBS support. However I've not much experience in starting my own business and I've no idea where to even start; general things to start up with I'll need a company name and website - I may PM JonMac shortly to get a quote, although before I do this I need to sort a few other things out.

So any ideas on company names anyone or advice in general? :)

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To make my money up I'm trying to go self employed for 2-4 days of the week if the business is there - preferably in network setup, XP support and SBS support.

Depends what your planning to do with it really. If you want to do it yourself your probably best as operating as a Sole Trader, this means that you can just set up a company name and start trading without any sort of legal "stuff" being done. Only risk is it that your finances are "the same" as the companys. Best invested a little in Flyers and making a decent webiste, then posting stuff through all possible customers doors?

John Macks a bit different because he can opperate soley online for website design and stuff?

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I think he was talking about Mac with regard to a corporate design or something.

Sole trader is definitely the way forwards at this stage. The running and reporting requirements of a company will make it logistically demanding and more costly, so much so that it will offset any benefits that having a registered company would give you.

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I think he was talking about Mac with regard to a corporate design or something.

Yup, thats what I mean.

Thing is at the moment I'm not exactly sure what I want to do with it, so I guess the sole trader route would be the best. I'm not overly concerned if it doesn't take off, I'm just trying to try and make a bit of money from it, aswell as being my ideal career path - so I may as well try it now whilst I have the free time and resources to make it happen.

Obviously, if this comes to the point where I can fully support myself on my own, then I'll stick to it and grow it.#

Thanks for the help guys.

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