Re: [Nolug] OT Consulting Contracting etc.

As Mark said, you need to form a business. The easiest and cheapest is
a sole proprietorship, but an LLC is also relatively cheap and also
gives you protection. If you want to moonlight, that's fine. And if
you are going part-time with your current company, that may help since
you will have set daylight hours you are available. Unless you are a
programmer, you may not get far moonlighting only at night.

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Thursday, March 1, 2007, 9:22:30 AM, you wrote:
> Hi list.
>     This is a bit off topic for NOLUG but im in need of some input. I 
> know there are at least a few people on the list who are IT related 
> consultants/contractors.
>     I work in the Oil & Gas sector as a GeoTech/IT guy. The company I 
> work for is going through a rough patch so my employment is a bit shaky
> at the moment. I had come up with the idea of contracting myself out to
> a couple other companies to reduce my cost to my current company and 
> generate additional income for myself. But ive never contracted myself
> out before. I don't know what State and/or Federal issues I might 
> encounter, Business license and such, or Insurance issues I would need
> to think about. Is there any advice/insight that those who are their own
> contracting company could fill me in on. Any common pitfalls I should be
> looking out for? Are clients (basic IT work clients) hard to come by? 
> Any resources you had found helpful?
> Thanks in advance
> the almost unemployed
> Dennis
> in the words of one of my boss's, "we have one foot out the door and the
> other on a banana peel"
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