I'm leaving Yachting Monthly

Searush said:
keep your accounts up to date (especially who has & has not paid!)
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+1

Mate of mine has ended up being owed fifteen grand by a company that looks unlikely to pay (and even if they do, the debt collector he's engaged will be getting a big chunk of it). They kept paying lumps of money, but because he wasn't really keeping track he didn't notice that it was never the full amount and the shortfall just kept getting bigger. He just thought that because he kept seeing transfers in his favour, and never actually ran out of operating funds, everything was basically ok. Till he sat down one day to reconcile invoices against receipts, and found the hole.

Pete
 
snooks said:
Thanks everyone for your kind words of support...I might well be mad, but there is only really one way to find out.
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Yup, I'm still finding out everyday just how mad I was to set up a yacht brokerage.

Best of luck Graham and pop over and see us soon.

You can even take some of my brokerage pics but the money will be rubbish and if the boat fails a survey it will be non-existent ;)

Welcome to our world ;)
 
sighmoon said:
Good luck.

That's surprising - I thought your job with YM was pretty much a paid holiday (apart from the occasional power boat in the face). Will IPC be one of your freelance clients?
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That would be a good start. But don't rely on it. If they get a staffer or a new editor things have a habit of changing. Get new clients.
 
Gosh- tomorrow will be your first day out of work since leaving college in 1997! Take a few days off with your family!
 
Plyn said:
Gosh- tomorrow will be your first day out of work since leaving college in 1997! Take a few days off with your family!
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It will be the last day of May when it hits you hardest, Graham. When the realisation finally hits you that you will not be getting a regular & predictable salary payment every month. It scared the poo out of me despite having 6 months' salary in the bank after leaving.

You get used to it & the cheques rolled in irregularly but often enough to keep the "rainy day" fund rising, but that first "dead" payday is real scary. Be ready for it.
 
.... and get used to chasing invoices. If you find a client who pays before time, love and cherish them.


On the other hand, you will never again have to take on a job you really don't want to.
 
Snooks,

the very best of luck, I would never dream of working for someone else ever again, I decided long ago that if I'm going to work for an idiot, it may as well be me !

The freedom to make your own arrangements is worth a great deal in itself.
 
Sorry to see you go, good luck with the freelance stuff :)

I very much doubt they will leave you completely powerless, you could still wield that power through the proxy of Laura!
 
Thanks again everyone. Laura and Nat will be fine without me, as will YM.

I'll still be hanging around here, probably like the smell of a grotty bilge, but my oars will be kept well away from the running of this place.

It was a nice leaving do, and I was rescued by my wife at a sensible time so I was alright to drop the little one off this morning. Lots of things to sort out today, little things like cameras cars and insurance, banks etc, etc.

But the sun is out, and a beer is in the fridge just incase I decide to knock off early if it all gets too much:)
 
Searush said:
It will be the last day of May when it hits you hardest, Graham. When the realisation finally hits you that you will not be getting a regular & predictable salary payment every month. It scared the poo out of me despite having 6 months' salary in the bank after leaving.

You get used to it & the cheques rolled in irregularly but often enough to keep the "rainy day" fund rising, but that first "dead" payday is real scary. Be ready for it.
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Its worse than that, we get paid on the 6th of each month !
 
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