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I worked for six years for a company that does e-commerce development. I basically was the driving force behind the company going frmo a two-man flyspeck to a 12-man force to be reckoned with in the industry. Then I got laid off. But I'm not bitter!
That was last February. On April 1 I officially incorporated my business doing basically the same thing--e-commerce development and web-based business automation software. It's AWESOME being my own man. Honest to god, if I want to take a two week vacation, I can do that. I completed the biggest job of my career a couple months ago, and have been living off that ever since. I've got another couple months pay out of that project. Meanwhile I'm trawling for new projects--no big urgency right now, but I've got a couple lines in the water.
Now, there's a downside. My first six months I didn't make anything like the kind of money I was used to. I had a pretty low "used to" as well--my last year with my old company, I was a corporate officer and so didn't get paid when payroll was tight. I really had to get to work, AND trust that I had what it took to make the thing work.
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