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One of the things about being an ‘independent’ contractor/consultant is that everyone assumes that you have loads of money.  Sure, you may get a bit more in your pay packet than Johnny Punchclock, but there are a lot more factors to take into consideration - things that a salaried employee’s company shells out for. One of these things in moving expenses.
I’ve been fortunate in that my work has taken me to a number of different places: from England to Belgium, from there to Singapore, then to the U.S., then back to Belgium, and finally (so far) back to the U.S. […]

Given that I was flying out of Chicago in December, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that my flight back home to Houston was cancelled due to snow. What was a surprise was that the snow was in Houston, not Chicago.  Apparently Houston had been hit by a freak cold snap, resulting in an inch or so of snow.  This may not sound like a lot, but for a city that has no real need of snow plans, it is almost on par with a disaster.  (Hurricanes we can cope with, but itty-bitty snowflakes?  Whoa!)  So schools were let […]