You are lucky to still be young and starting out.

My advice is "marry a girl whose daddy has a company that needs an IT department".

Seriously. In the current economy you need to have connections, or be really, really good, like Merlyn, Abigail, et al.

Where do those connections come from?

1. Marry into it.

2. Start your own export-import or data-mining service

3.Get hooked in with the military or government. Security and surveillance are the coming thing. Get good with cameras and motion detection, and programs to auto-monitor them.

I was just listening to a report on NPR on search engines, their future and their failures. The gist is that engines like Yahoo or Google don't do much for you, they can't search newspapers, court records, etc. So a new wave of "pay-for" search engines is about to emerge. Maybe go around to different newspapers and offer to setup on pay-for online search of their archives. There are good possibilities of being bought out by bigger fish, once you are up and running. Then you can retire. :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re: Advice on escaping Corporate America / Starting own consultancy outfit? by zentara
in thread OT: Advice on escaping Corporate America / Starting own consultancy outfit? by flyingmoose

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