I spent most of the day wrapping up the taxes for our business.  The accountant requested a little more information and I have that ready to go. I hate doing the taxes every year but it really does give you the opportunity to look at some numbers that we all seldom pay enough attention to during the year.

The largest part of our gross income goes out to the sub-contractors we have in the field and I usually find transportation costs as the second largest expenditure.  Not this year, though. This year our expenses for technology and communications far out-stripped the transportation costs.  But, one of the servers we purchased costs nearly as much as a nice used car!

After taking a real hard look at the numbers, I can still recommend a field service career as a good endeavor.  There certainly are some situations that are difficult to deal with but any business person knows that is always going to be the case.  There is one caveat though:  you still have to drop the companies that are so difficult to deal with and replace that income with other opportunities.