No blog yesterday because I was out all day (and much of today) doing what I'm supposed to do; teaching and networking.
Had my first mentoring job in the morning, which was quite surprising as I had always assumed that mentoring would follow teaching by some distance - still, we know what they say about assumption, don't we?
Without disclosing actual figures, I had to make decisions for the sake of the £100 experiment how I would treat time & mileage. I have decided to cost in face-to-face time at the hourly rate paid by Strodes College (which is by definition market rate) and mileage at 40p per mile. In the short term traveling time will not be counted.
On this basis, and accounting for an installment for PI cover (which I postponed til the last minute), my budget has now recovered to about £52 - burning a hole in my pocket...
The evening networking was organised by a Quango called Enterprise First, who do roughly what I do, but at no cost. Nothing is ever that simple, and if I can teach you just one thing it will be to embrace your competition, don't distance them - you will be surprised how many opportunities there are to work together.
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