Re: Home Optics Business

On Oct 20, 8:29 pm, Engineering Calculations
<ecalculati...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Guys,

I realized several things about working for myself from home as a one
person optical design business:

1. I need to bring in all the money.

2. I can be employee of the month, every month.

3. I can give myself a 10% raise every year if I work hard enough at
1.

4. I can finally have that torrid afair with my secretary and my wife
will be happy about it.

Hi Jim,
I'm also an optical designer, and I've been consulting for a little
over twenty years now. I believe consultants are born, not made, but
I think you're on the right track.
I agree with #1, #2 is overrated, #3 is not always possible no
matter how hard you work, but is at other times easy to beat, and #4
is possible only if your wife elects to be your secretary. (Mine
declined; she wanted a steady, certain income, thank goodness, because
that got us through one very bad year. Fortunately, I was able to
return the favor, with interest, when, after 31 years at her job at
the "eternal" university, she got cancer and was suddenly let go.)
To your list, I would add that if your boss is hard to get along
with, or less than knowledgeable, you have the power to change him.
Try that in the corporate world!

Incidentally, the funniest take I've seen on consulting was just
posted by Spencer Luster on October 1, "how to work as an optics
consultant". I laughed out loud when I read it. What kind of life is
that, indeed?
One that's hard to give up.

Wade Kelman

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