Overview

In today's gig economy of portfolio careers and side hustles, more and more of us are working alone for at least some of our lives. We are the self-employed, the freelancers, the independent consultants and the one-man bands. Responsible for every aspect of our own professional lives, we need at least eight arms to keep the show on the road - we are the solo squids. But although you can work alone, you may not know how to enjoy it. This book is about how to be a happy solo squid - how to run your business on your own and thrive on the experience. It is not a book about how to set up a one-person business, and it is especially not a book about how to expand that business to take on armies of staff and portfolios of premises. Staying solo does not mean that you are not good enough or successful enough or imaginative enough to run a larger business: it simply means that you have taken charge of your own destiny and have chosen to run a happy one-person business. If that sounds like something you would like to do, then this is the book for you - welcome to the world of the solo squid.

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"""The decision to go it alone was a difficult one to make but mere weeks into it and I am already so glad I decided to move on - I wish I could have read this book in advance of that decision making and if you have similar thoughts before pressing the button I strongly recommend you read it. Being a one person business is definitely not for everyone but I honestly think after you read this book you will know quite strongly if it is right or not for you. I will highly recommend this to a number of business associates who have also risked it all to go it alone and I cannot praise it enough. Excellent."" - Mr C Jonkmans ""As a fellow Solo Squid, albeit with only 5 years experience, I loved this book. Lots of sound advice with plenty of great examples of how to sustain and enjoy life in business on your own. Reassuring that I already do a lot of what's recommended, but some real food for thought for doing more. Highly recommended"" - Martin Colston ""Absolutely loved this book. I was offered the opportunity to read it, and as a 'solo squid' of over ten years, I snapped up the offer. Susan brilliantly summed up the solo squid life, with a good sprinkling of practical and useful advice. I particularly loved the tips on adding a thoughtful touch with clients, from sending chocolate coins on work anniversaries, to rewarding repeat customers."" - Emma Cossey"

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"I have been in love with words ever since I realised, at age three, that those squiggles on the page actually meant something. I edited the school newspaper (is here the place to confess that I was also the author of the section giving all the gossip on who was going out with whom?) and did lots more reading and writing at university (where, of course, I studied English).For twenty-five years I ran my own anti-money laundering consultancy, which gave me almost limitless opportunity to write about my very favourite subject: money laundering. And the obsession with understanding the mechanics and motivations of financial crime has only grown.I have spent years haunting the streets of Regency London, in the company of magistrates' constable Sam Plank. He is the narrator of my series of seven historical financial crime novels set in consecutive years in the 1820s - just before Victoria came to the throne, and in the policing period after the Bow Street Runners and before the Metropolitan Police.The fourth Sam Plank novel - ""Portraits of Pretence"" - was given the ""Book of the Year 2017"" award by influential book review website Discovering Diamonds. And the fifth - ""Faith, Hope and Trickery"" - was shortlisted for the Selfies Award 2019.And I am now researching the first in a new series set in Cambridge in the 1820s, narrated by a university constable called Gregory Hardiman."

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