Yesterday I got a fine ball-pen in the mail. It was a marketing present from a office articles supplier, who look up companies in the registers and send them a ball-pen when they have anniversaries in the hope that the recipient will buy a whole batch - my company is 20 years this year.

I have been self deployed most of my adult life, which has been privileged, but also rather hard at times. The good thing about it is that it becomes better with time. The first years are almost always hard, but with time you get the routines together, save up, invests and are able to enjoy the freedom of it.

I am not going to give any advice... my company has been involved in so many economically reckless artistic projects that I am the last person to advice anybody, but I do recommend being self-employed to people if they ask. I was never a person that enjoyed having a boss, even though I am a good employee (they've said the few times I had to take a short period with a paid job), and if people asks they often feel the same way.

And the future looks good. I have always been a first mover (Hive account@evilhippie says so) and having discovered crypto-currencies has been a exiting new opening for me. Right now I am using a lot of my time on projects here on Steemit, my comic, where I have had a great and fun cooperation with Hive account@shortcut and Hive account@vcelier , a promising collaboration making Nigerian pulp-fiction with Hive account@nevies and quite a few other projects in the pipeline.

20 :)