Where we're up to at the moment

Firstly, a bit of background, as the process has already started.

My name is Kathy and I'm 44. The small software company I spent 11 and a half years working for went into liquidation at the end of March 2009, so I needed to look for a new position. As you can imagine, after that long working for one company, I was hit fairly hard by the process and spent some time taking a long hard look at what I wanted to do to earn a living. Oh - that is, after I recovered from the shock and depression that followed the day the company shut down...

While the employees knew that sales had been dropping over time, we were all flat out doing custom development and installations, so we thought that the company would keep trading and the economy would pick up. Until the week before the liquidators came in - at that point, there were long board meetings and things, so we started to feel concerned. Then it all fell in a heap.

So one of the thoughts I had was to try and not be in that situation again - there was absolutely nothing I could have done differently to change the outcome for that company, sales was not my area - so I would like to prevent that situation from occurring again, if I can. Thus are dreams of owning and running our own business begun!

Note that the 'our' in that statement is my partner Dave, who has been an IT technical support person for about as long as I've been a programmer. So we decided that we would combine our talents and create a business that focuses on small business development (more on this later) with a side line of technical support, focusing on customers who buy the software, but not restricting the support side to those people.

This blog will be the story of our travels along that path - including the processes required regarding Centrelink along the way, which are nearly worthy of their own separate story, but not quite...

Hope you are interested in the story - I'll try and fill in some of what's already happened in a while, then keep you updated as things occur.