I hope this will be my main work and source of income in the UK. It will be similar in some ways to the computer consulting work I did in the US, but with some significant differences. When I was in NJ, I never really wanted to stay in NJ; I always had one foot out the door, at least mentally. So growing my business long term was never a priority, as the last thing I wanted to do was build up something only to abandon it halfway.

This time, I’m in for the long haul, focusing on growth, stability, and growing beyond a one man operation. To start with, it’s already a two-man operation, as I have a partner, a fellow IT guy with an interest in entrepreneurship.

We’re also focusing on business models that can grow and scale beyond being a small shop. But enough of the boring talk. So far, it’s keeping me very busy, and I always prefer to be too busy than not busy enough!

I think it describes my prospects when I get back to the UK, as I have a company that has offered and planned for me to do work on an ad-hoc basis, billed hourly, with discussions of retainers, part-time, and/or full-time (but nothing is definite).

Given the current state of the economy, I think we need a word like this.

If you’d like to start using it, please do, as I’m hoping it makes the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year list. And if you like it enough, forward this post to your friends. Please – my blog needs the traffic.

N.B. You may write it employedesque or employed-esque.

P.S. N.B. After a quick google, the results show that while self-employed-esque is indexed (but just twice) there is no existence of the word employedesque standing alone.