Self Employment

For the self employment project to research self employment I typed into google self employment and started off looking through the sites that initially came up.   I discovered many sites that offered a step by step guide to becoming self employed from the Citizens Advice Bureau to HMRC.  There are comprehensive guides for all aspects of becoming self employed.  

I have found this project quite straightforward and enjoyable.   Having had a professional back ground and being a mature person, some of the aspects of self employment I have come across already.  I already have a selection of research on law within my specialist area so I have been able to use some of this information.

As regards my organisation of this project, I only discovered the week before we broke up for half term that there were documents on Moodle relating to this project.  They are too long to print out I discovered, and I had already made a good start prior to looking at these documents.  I don't know if my not knowing about these documents in my me having my ears closed or just not thinking to use the resources available to me.   This I feel I could have done better and can learn from.   

Also, today I discovered from fellow students that amongst these documents there are some worksheets we have to complete and today is the first I have heard of it.   So having not been in class this morning due to interview, Lotty has photocopied the sheets for me and I need now to fill them in ready for hand in tomorrow.

I have put together a good selection of information I feel, finding resources that people may not think of or would dismiss i.e. MoneySavingExpert.com.  

I feel my life experience has helped me in this project.