My experiment as a fulltime employee is now over. Well, it has been over for over a month now, but I'm finally getting around to blogging again. I had my longest blogging hiatus (just about a month). I'm not going to get into the details, but after a couple months, I could see the writing on the wall, and knew it was only a matter of time before I was going to have to make a change. So, I'm now back to being an independent consultant, and currently have a client that is located in downtown New York City. For the last couple months, I have been struggling with what I wanted to do next. I know that I have to do something more than billing by the hour as an independent consultant, but I know that I can't just jump into it. The logical choice is to either start a new consulting firm or join a small firm. I'm leaning towards starting a new firm, but the devil is in the details, and that is where I haven't figured out the specifics. In a perfect world, I'd like to create a loose confederation of Microsoft MVPs and community influencers. But, the size would need to be kept small, to keep the overhead low. The biggest obstacle is that, well, as independents, we like to be independent.