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Permalink Reply by cnicita on May 20, 2012 at 4:46pm

Update:  Yes, I am still writing the proposal for Aspie small business owners.  Yes, it is taking this long.

Back in a bit.

Permalink Reply by cnicita on May 21, 2012 at 8:25pm

Have the first page of the report done, and better yet, it makes sense to the neurotypicals who are making sure I'm comprehensible. Huzzah!

Here it is:

This exploration is designed to help any autistic freelance content creator who has some weakness in executive functioning.

It will

1. focus on Executive Functioning concerns, and

2. show how a Virtual Assistant could be used to address those concerns.

Permalink Reply by Melissa on September 26, 2012 at 10:15am

I am a small business owner working generally with other small businesses.  I work from home programming and doing web design.  I started this about 15 years ago and stay very busy.  I have one programmer that works for me from his home, but would like to find more.  It's very difficult to find self motivated, skilled, help in this area. 

Permalink Reply by Michelle on November 19, 2012 at 5:04pm

Hello Melissa

Interesting you describe being busy as a web programmer... I've been doing just that for the last 4 years and have just recently decided to let the thing die. Reason: I just can't market, write proposals, complete all the work, and do all the bookkeeping by myself. The marketing I think is the main problem since I just couldn't get enough business lines, and the ones I would get, expected me to work for practically nothing. So I just stopped paying the company bills from my own disability check. This has been the most disheartening failure other than the constant opposition I get from academia in attempting to finish a college degree.

Fact is, I am a very good programer, and an awesome graphic designer, but I've just about totally lost interest because my experiences have been so negative. I've been bullied out of 2 really nice, well paying jobs, gotten threats of law-suits by exercising my right to NOT work for slave wages, (i.e. $0 -nothing!) and apparently lost a really good client because I seemed to have missed something somewhere.

Anyway, read your post, and thought you might be a good person to network with.

Melissa said:

I am a small business owner working generally with other small businesses.  I work from home programming and doing web design.  I started this about 15 years ago and stay very busy.  I have one programmer that works for me from his home, but would like to find more.  It's very difficult to find self motivated, skilled, help in this area. 

Permalink Reply by Joshua Alexander on May 4, 2013 at 11:38pm

I also am a website developer and internet marketer. I have 13 companies that do sales for us currently and 1 other programmer besides myself. Looking to move the company overseas soon.