Peter Carruthers
Most of us entrepreneurs didn’t choose to be here! It kinda happened en route to a real job and career.
And that's pretty much what happened to me and led to me writing about small business issues.
Isn’t this a wonderful time to be alive?
Two years in the UK
- By Peter Carruthers
- Published 07/22/2008
A few days ago this South African celebrated the end of his second year in the United Kingdom, with a great Australian red wine, in a Chinese bistro, with a Polish waitress. And to think the main reason for coming here was to get good Internet access!
The short story involves waking up in Durban without Internet access one day. This is vexing for a person who has a pure Internet business. It is even more vexing for someone paying almost £1000 for six access methods (ADSL, ISDN, two 3G 'lines', wireless broadband, and dial up). As I went redder in the face my wife suggested it might be time to chase some good Internet access, and her suggestion was Ringwood.
Turns out it was a fine idea, with 8MB access costing about £30.
(I know I can get it cheaper, but the crowd I am with fit my needs and are very responsive when I have a query. No calls via Utter Pradesh! Yep, I know I spelled that wrong, but it seems more appropriate my way.)
After two years I finally feel that the work I have done for the past 16 years in the SA market has some relevance to UK small business owners. I must be the only idiot on earth to broadcast his last business failure (1992) with quite so much gusto.
The short story involves waking up in Durban without Internet access one day. This is vexing for a person who has a pure Internet business. It is even more vexing for someone paying almost £1000 for six access methods (ADSL, ISDN, two 3G 'lines', wireless broadband, and dial up). As I went redder in the face my wife suggested it might be time to chase some good Internet access, and her suggestion was Ringwood.
Turns out it was a fine idea, with 8MB access costing about £30.
(I know I can get it cheaper, but the crowd I am with fit my needs and are very responsive when I have a query. No calls via Utter Pradesh! Yep, I know I spelled that wrong, but it seems more appropriate my way.)
After two years I finally feel that the work I have done for the past 16 years in the SA market has some relevance to UK small business owners. I must be the only idiot on earth to broadcast his last business failure (1992) with quite so much gusto.