Receiving many cards and e-mails from loving friends and relatives from around the world in the last few days, was probably a useful reminder for me to ‘get on with it’ as the year, well and truly draws to a close.
It’s been a year of mixed fortunes. A year where I often sat at home and thought, how is this going to end. I guess if/when a downturn in economic activity gets its own moniker – GFC (global financial crisis) things are really serious.
And whilst our various governments can dream up stimulus packages for banks, car manufacturers, airlines and other worthwhile gigantic enterprises, the stimuli for one man bands in the market research capers are well and truly far and few between.
And when the managing director of this world wide operating one man enterprise suffers from morbus peregrinatio (overseas travel addiction) then the follow on infliction, morbus paupertas (poverty) is not very far if the circumstances are right for it. And they proved to be right for it.
However, having very good friends also means that at some stage a most generous survival package hit my German bank account in form of a loan from some caring souls, which was more than appreciated.
The early days of the year were filled with work. In fact it was a large contract for one project in three waves, stretched over the entire year, which brought on the above mentioned morbus peregrination. It looked like the fortunes had turned and this one contract was worth more than the entire turnover of the company in 2009. However, in June, shortly after my return from my trip around the world, wave 2 and 3 were cancelled and we were back to the follow on infliction, morbus paupertas
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