Yesterday I was clearing up someone else's mess, and I was not amused. What should have been a nice piece of consultancy work had moved into the realms of nightmare. In the big scheme of things, it was not the worse problem I have ever sorted out but it was not one of my making and that's the point.
The situation reminded me why I took the decision to become self employed again rather than building up another business. Its not just that this government has increasingly removed the incentives to build an exciting new business, though they have, its that I have grown less tolerant of poor work and mistakes as I get older.
These days I prefer to work smarter and just focus on filling my own diary with work that I look forward to rather than worrying about feeding the machine. I get so much satisfaction from a client who loves the work that I do that I no longer want to take the risk of a colleague ballsing it all up.
Although David Cameron's task is going to be of a different order, I hope he is looking forward to the challenge of clearing up someone else's mess.
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