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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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Working on a Sunday

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

This news item on the Gainseville site caught my eye and certainly rang true with me. Working on a Sunday has certainly become the norm for me. Working for yourself you become much more flexible with your time. I use Sundays to catch up on email and write my blog entries. I’m typing this as 12.35pm on Sunday June 27th for instance.

Gone are the days when we all sat about not doing a great deal on Sundays having over indulged with Sunday lunch. With extended opening ours and a rapid development of leisure time, Sundays have become one of the busiest days of the week.

Personally I try to kick back a bit on a Sunday and do the housekeeping I need to do for my business. Locking invoices and expenses into my accounts spreadsheet is a habit I have developed this year. The practical upshot is that when I need to generate my accounts at year end, this takes less than an hour. When I first started my business and simply stuffed envelops with invoices and receipts. End of year accounts would take all day - usually a Sunday.

I certainly get the impression that my fellow homeworkers are all logged on for at least part of every Sunday. It’s difficult not to check on emails, or blogs your monitoring, but I would say that you should try and throttle back on Sundays as much as you can. Preparing stuff for the forthcoming week is also a favourite of mine, but I still make time to relax and spend time with the family.

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