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Managing in a Hand-to-Mouth economy? - THE_BLEGSCOPE_Blog If you are anything like me, you will remember the days when you were growing up and you would ask your parents for something and …

So, uh, it’s been some time since I’ve written anything for The BLEGSCOPE Blog; I’d like to say that it’s because I’d gotten busy, but the truth of the matter is that in the past almost 24 months, I’ve either been reading a book on my tablet (currently reading Being Unreasonable – Lessons in Unconventional Thinking by Eli Broad and I have a long list of books shared by both Cecilia from her online stash and Alex from Hooked to Books), had a running session up the Tank Hill, tried to get financing clients for a mid-sized private equity financing firm, handling the life of both a 14 year old and 2 and a half year old with 85 times more energy or been engrossed by a certain TV series with a lead character named “Ghost” that I was not paying attention to the writing part of my life resulting in a 2 year hiatus (last post here was 16th Oct 2017).

That notwithstanding, the readership numbers though dwindled, have not sputtered to a halt with some new readers clicking some articles from Canada, Alaska-USA, Ghana, Germany, Australia and of course Uganda my home country. Very humbling to seem to have run out of steam putting out any form of content and still have the blog have visitors read your content from 5 years ago.

Long story short, I’ve been bad.

Real bad>> at writing and even worse at sharing my thoughts anywhere.
… Long Time Everything …

On the bright side, I have recently dared myself to write about the perils of starting, growing and semi-shutting down a burgeoning consulting practise in a developing economy with a view to focus on lessons learnt and mistakes that one should make when choosing to become self-employed.

For reals

The first thing I did when the idea hit me was to admit that it was not a terrible idea since I have had at least 10 colleagues, peers and friends ask me where did I get the cojones to quit my job and go back to square one to prove that my own skills and knowledge could be an enabler and put food on the table consistently.

Key word consistently**.

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Long time - No write - THE>BLEGSCOPE_Blog Hello! *clears throat* So, uh, it’s been some time since I’ve written anything for The BLEGSCOPE Blog; I’d like to say that it’s because I’d gotten …

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