Let’s start a business!
Going from being employed to freelancing isn’t that difficult in Sweden. You have to register a company of course, but I did that years ago so it’s basically been sitting there, waiting for me to take the step and stop doing things I don’t really find inspiring.
There is some stuff that’s good to have though. One thing is an insurance, in case you mess up and someone sues you. I was planning to get one from Trygg Hansa, the insurance company I’ve used before, that also has a deal with Sveriges Ingenjörer (my union). Unfortunately for them, they messed up by sending me a horrible form containing questions like these:
22) What theoretical education do the leading persons have? List name and education.
23) What practical experience do the leading persons have? List name and education.
I still don’t really know why they want this information, or, exactly what information they want, but I did my best to guess. Then I got to this question:
Vilka interna regler, instruktioner e d finns gällande för avtalsskrivningar i syfte att förebygga eller begränsa “ren förmögenhetsskada” och som gäller som säkerhetsföreskrift i avtalet?
I actually can’t translate this, because I don’t understand the sentence. I’ll run it through google translate, the result will probably be as comprehensible as the Swedish version:
What internal rules, instructions, etc. are applicable to contractual wordings in order to prevent or limit the “pure property damage “and relating to safety regulation in the agreement?
After getting no help from the Trygg Hansa contact person, who only told me I had to answer all the questions, I got tired of the stupid form and called the insurance company If instead. They got me an insurance without any trouble at all.
For book keeping I’m using a service from my bank, Swedbank, which seems really neat. Integrated and simplified book keeping and invoicing and all connected to my bank accounts!
For time tracking, I’ve chosen Harvest. It was one of the alternatives I found when googling, along with Tick. Tick lost because they wanted my credit card number before giving me the free trial month and the screenshots didn’t look that great.
Harvest is liked by Chris Messina, and Chris Messina is liked by my boyfriend Andreas, so Harvest must be good. They also tweeted me after I mentioned them and I like that. Almost on the spam side, but they basically offered me support, so obviously they realize the value of marketing in social media. Another company that tweeted me was Intervals. I signed up for a free account there but Intervals isn’t as pretty as Harvest and more expensive.
Now I have what I need. Time to do business!
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