A change of direction?

It has been a short while since my last entry but I have been doing a lot of thinking and soul-searching during this time.

For the past few weeks, my Courier business has not been all it could be and in addition I am having difficulty getting paid by one or two of my customers. If the current situation continues, I am not sure that I either want to or can afford to carry on with the Courier business.

The other week, I had a chance conversation with someone I have known for a little while and was offered a potential new business opportunity. It means becoming involved in an area of finance that I am not very familiar with but feel that I have the confidence and ability to potentially make a go of things.

I have attended an initial training day and feel that I should try out this new found business opportunity. On the face of things, this new direction could be quite lucrative. I am both looking forward to and feeling apprehensive about getting involved in an area that I am currently unfamiliar with.

Will it be what I expect, will I be suited to the new roll, will it eventually replace the need for me to operate a Courier business?

So may questions, so many decisions, so many things to consider, not least the impact my work and earning activities will have on my family. If anyone out there has any advice having been in similar circumstances, I would be delighted to hear from you. I will of course let you know how the "dipping my toe in the pool of uncertainty" goes.

Opening Up

Hello, and welcome to my new Blog venture.

I have undertaken to do this for several reasons:

1) To prove to myself that I can create and sustain a diary that others find interesting enough to visit and comment on from time to time.

2) To inform and entertain you by describing the successes and failures, high and lows in my relatively newly acquired semi-retired, self-employed life.

3) I also intend to give frequent comments on people and things in the news. These may or may not prove to be controversial and I also hope that they will meet with a degree of agreement.

Whatever my reasons for creating this Blog and whatever your reasons for spending a few moments of your time reading my efforts, I hope that you enjoy my jottings over the coming months and look forward to receiving comments.