Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!burdvax!dvnspc1!gary
From: gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do I become a consultant?
Message-ID: <828@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 89 16:21:23 GMT
References: <7185@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Devon, PA
Lines: 20

In article <7185@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>, barber@odin.ucsd.edu (Terri Barber) writes:
> 
> How does one become a computer consultant?
> 

If you are talking about freelance consulting, you need to consider
your target market, what you can offer to your target market (your skill set), 
and your ability to establish and manage your own business.  Having
done consulting myself, all that is not as easy as it sounds  -
especially if you plan to make a living at it.

To get discounts based on your consultant status, you would probably
have to prove that you are a legitimate business.  That usually
requires more than a business card.  If the dealer is serious about
limiting his discounts, he would probably want to see your tax
number, which you'd get as part of creating your sole proprietorship.
-- 
======================================================================
Gary Barrett
=======================================================================