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I started this blog amongst other things to record my thinking behind my business decisions in this, my early part of my bid for sustained self-employment. I want to record these thoughts because I know that, whether I am a great success or a spectacular failure, I won’t be able to remember why I took a certain path, what made me act in that way.

So, ijumped.net is partly about recording how I arrived at my decisions, at the time those decisions are made.  So far, I have decided that I need to do “something on the internet” and I have some ideas that I will share with you soon.  I also have a little head start, because I have a fledgling web business already that is breaking even (which is not saying a lot for a web-based business, I know!)

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This my blog about jumping into the unknown. Not literally, you understand, but metaphorically, and in this case, career-wise. Or career-unwise. It’s all about my undying urge to break away from a lifetime of compliance, received caution, and the ingrained need for job stability. My jump, although not life-threatening, has a lot in common with the physical leap off the back of the cross-channel ferry into the darkness. It was born not so much out of careful planning as out of desperation. I may sink or swim, and my survival (in self-employment at least) is by no means certain. I may get a life-saving hand just when I need it, or I could be left to flounder in the depths.

Being renowned for starting things that I never finish, I can’t promise anything, but I am starting this blog today with a view to recording the thinking and experiences, the successes and failures, the joys and woes, as my jump into the unknown unfolds.