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Who is Nexus Publishing?
Originally from a small town called Darlaston – about ten miles north of Birmingham – I moved to West Sussex about ten years ago to help develop one of the first online retailers. Having recently moved to Shropshire I am now enjoying the working from home life in a semi rural location.
I have been a freelance writer and journalist for about fifteen years. Eight of them were spent doing various other jobs such as bookshop assistant, print finisher and returns clerk for a large library supplier, with the writing taking up evenings and any of my spare time. As you can see, much of my life so far has been spent working with books and publishing of one kind or another.
My time as an employee came to a conclusion some six years ago with redundancy, so I took the opportunity – and the money – to see if I could survive as a full-time freelance writer. That was five years ago. There have been some lean times – just ask my wife, Joanne. But after tasting the freelance life, there’s no going back.
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For the second year in a row Google has been voted the best place to work according to the Great Place to Work Institute. Their website states: ‘According to their employees, this company has created a culture that is high on trust, low on politics, great at sharing resources and sharing the wealth, and full of meaning and significance.’
I guess if I ever wanted to go back to an office job, places like Google would be high on my list. In the early day’s of my home working life I often questioned my motivation for starting Nexus Publishing and turning my back on the 9-5 job.
Personally it was the best move I ever made. Now my home office is the best place to work on the planet. I have complete control over the environment I work in. Since moving house I now have all the space I need. Google may have the edge as a great place to work, but all homeworkers know that there’s no place like their own space crafted to their precise requirements.
