2024 update 24/52
Not a very eventful week.
Working my networks, getting connected to people via friends and former colleagues. Of course, 99% of my network is in the US and I want to work remotely from home country as a foreign consulting biz, so not making my life super easy there.
I’ve started working on my friend’s contract, and it’s been pretty great, actually… I contacted a couple of my former colleagues in the process as I was looking for some data, I’ve missed those guys. I guess I’m in a somewhat unique situation on these forums in that I really enjoyed my work (maybe not 100% of it, but most of it) and my colleagues. Oh well. I do enjoy free time though, not gonna lie.
It feels good to start making money on my own terms though and to finally do something with this business I started. I sent my first quote, that was exciting.
Exchanged a few messages with ex-SO and when I mentioned old job fell through, ex-SO asked whether I’d be interested in some consulting work
First phone call in months, which was nice, and turns out there are a number of potential projects that’d be a good fit! Ex-SO’s organization is a mess and always seemed to have a lot of drama, but as a consultant I wouldn’t have to deal with it. I could cap each involvement at the minimum no-bid amount (aka not that many hours) and decide not to go for more projects if it’s too crazy. If it works well, there could be a lot of similar projects in the pipeline for me. That could be easy money plus the satisfaction to bring some actual science in the work they do, which is very needed. We’ll see if that actually happens.
Parents left on a trip yesterday, it feels so nice to have the whole house for myself. The dogs are way less neurotic when they’re gone. Which is not surprising. The cats are their regular keyboard-loving cat selves.
ETA: I started running again! A super short run (2.5km) to test out the knees. After a couple of minutes, I decided to run a bit faster than before until it felt like proper running pace instead of just trampling, which seemed easier on the knees. Not on the cardio though, I could definitely feel I haven’t been running in two months…. And I’ve been quite sore since then. But between the rest, the new shoes and the new pace, my knees have been feeling good so far.