Setting up as a Freelancer

Between now and next year im learning to knuckle down and work freelance for clients. With the ad works going down, and the ex-Boss inability or refusal to even manage the collapse, it's looking very bleak regarding 7 years worth of redundancy pay. I need to get hold of a few of the other work mates to question what their approach will be. Its a kinda bitter twist that after all these years of struggle and loyalty there is no reward.

On another dark note the work mate i had the most trouble with, the one who really truly taught me to hate a fellow man, the one i learnt to put up with an work along side with gritting my teeth with anger and dispise, is now in a hospice and not taking visitors, reduced to nothing by his reappearing cancer. And i know of the old saying "i would'nt wish that on anyone" and i would'nt wish that, but come on, those out there who lie, stab you in the back, for their own selfish gains... dont they ever find a moment where inside they think 'how do the people around me think of me, at the end of it all will they honor the loss of me, and will i be happy when i look around at what i have accomplished in the world of men and women?'

So much darkness this year, and more to come, but my friends are all just a click away, and that makes it all much easier to cope with.