It's Monday - not my favourite day
Monday 13th June 2022
I woke up around 6:15am and got up at 7am. Collected the delivered milk and had my usual coffee, whilst reading LinkedIn, News, and Facebook. This is the moment of the day where it’s just me, and not necessarily business related.
My wife Aneta got up around 7:30am, and I woke up our wee one Lily (aged 2.5 years). She looked so cute surrounded by her cuddly toys. We did our usual, counting the days of the week in the car to nursery. I dropped her off on my way to work as it’s close by the office.
Our offices are in Technology Park, where we moved to last September from a city centre co-share office. There are two of us; myself and our Kickstart employee Natalie. We’ve room to comfortably add one more person in the office.
The work started with some admin, like registering sent CVs from Friday, replying to emails, and also sending out meeting requests via LinkedIn connections and Teams. I also chased up a client who is wanting to arrange an interview with one of the candidates I submitted. They also have an office in Australia and apparently it was a holiday there, so there’s a delay in getting the interview organised. It can be frustrating, but you have to go with the flow.
My Teams Meetings started at 11am with four meetings back-to-back. I don’t always have open positions for the IT candidates I speak to, but it’s about building your network.
It was quite a variety, but everyone had experience related to the Cloud or Cyber Security, which are our two niche areas. Saying that if a client needs another area of IT sourced, we’ll do it.
I spoke with a Cloud DevOps Engineer in India who is arriving here at the weekend. I also spoke with two Cyber Security Consultants based in England looking for remote roles or even to relocate to Scotland. Lastly, I spoke with a highly experienced Cyber Security consultant looking for a contract role.
In between all that, we’re selling my Mum’s house. We look after her since she had her stroke, and we’ve had an offer accepted on a new place. So, a little added stress to the usual stress of having your own business.
It’s 5:15pm now, so I’m off to pick up Lily from the nursery. I’ll get to have Lily all to myself on Monday & Tuesday evenings, as Aneta teaches English online. As I’m away Wed-Fri this week, I’ll make the most of it.