I would say at any age, depending on one's facts and circumstances, you presumably could make the switch. Currently, during this economic environment, there are many opportunities for entrepreneurial pursuits. Because of the inherent risk of starting a business and complicated by current uncertainty, the SBA has many loan programs in the 7a series, which, if applied for before September 27, 2020 qualify for 6 months of tax free principle and interest paid by the SBA. https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relief-options/sba-debt-relief For example, if you took out a $500k 7a working capital loan, the SBA would basically give you a $33k tax free gift. Along with the SBA programs, there are also many other grant programs for small businesses out there.

Not sure if already mentioned, but we use TSheets

Good discussion.

This dichotomy happens with many specialized fields of knowledge. It is very important to develop the relevant rhetorical skills to communicate the value propositions of what you are trying to accomplish.

I did notice they also are developing a nextcloud drive client. Maybe a culprit?

From the OP, I was going to post about the inherent risks of being an entrepreneur, but seems
this is not where the thread went...

Maybe they have a couple keys...

Going down this road of discovery myself. Hoping the "Passwords" app has been improved.
Initially it looks promising.
https://git.mdns.eu/nextcloud/passwords/wikis/users/index

If this is a very "small" business, QB, Wave, Xero, Freshbooks could be evaluated.

I would agree that QB online is not as robust as the desktop version, and depending on your tranctional load, the Online version can have some issues.

Xero is a good alternative to evaluate.

Also, https://xtuple.com/ has both a local and cloud hosted options. Also, they have a free version too. It is more in a class with Sage, which is good as well, but can get pricey. However, these two can scale better.

Is an online platform a requirement?

We use todoist. Seams reasonable.

Simply, I think he separates the "business" from the "practice" of whatever the profession is.

Reminds me of the E-myth series...

I think he also said he had two IT shops as clients of his, but, he is focused on the business, not how the technicians performed their craft.

I have a client who started a consulting firm, which uses EOS concepts. From his explaination, he basically is like a business efficency consultant. Many problems business have go unnoticed because the owners or mangers are too close to the problem. (Working IN the business, versus, Working ON the business )

My client follows the concepts in the book "Traction", and has the Lean Six Sigma Certifications. Those skills are applied to develop relevant KPIs to the business processes and procedures he says.

I will look to see if I can find it. I remember reading this issue, and the referenced case from years ago.

Interesting as people have noticed an increase in fail2ban bans on IP trying to connect to OPENVPN services, however, that could be coincidence, as I think this does not directly attack the service, but must lure you to a malicious site, for which the hack would insert garbage to the connection to try and obtain session data.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/voracle-attack-can-recover-http-data-from-vpn-connections/

Thank you for your inputs.

Has anyone put together an electrical backup strategy using transfer switches and standby generators?

Something using components such as:

http://www.eaton.com/Eaton/ProductsServices/Electrical/ProductsandServices/Residential/GeneratorsTransferSwitches/index.htm

Personally, I always thought the OpenVPN certificate was good second factor to the RDP username and password access. Thinking this would reduce AD account lockouts in relation to AD accounts which also had RDP access.

Isn't there some value in using two separate authentication systems in a multi-factor arrangement?