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Good question, i would like to know that as well.

I do. Small business clients who can’t afford an IT person. Sort of happened unintentionally as they approached me after my former employer went under about a year after I moved to my current job. Another client that came a few years later was someone in my network who owns a lawn and landscaping business.

I would love to do that.

Friends & family with a SMB

Yea your right

Similar and I take contracts. Just be honest and open about what you're doing and your availability.

My experience: I was a consultant 12 years ago. I worked 80 hours a week and it was hard. So i went back to the corporate structure. But i miss the consultanting realm.

Think blogging helps?

Yea i do. I think blogging gains the respect and shows you know what your doing. I just starting blogging and it helps me sharpen my skills. I think im time it will open more doors for me. The most important thing to me is all the community help on here. People like @Leee Jeffries, @Tim Riegler, @Eric, @Webster Webster, @Kasper Johansen , @Nick Panaccio, @James Kindon , @Citrix IRC and alot more have helped me alot. Im been blogging for years but never posted it public. Always been internal blogs for companies and training materials.

Have done some. To protect youself, I would strongly suggest setting up an LLC to remove yourself from personal liability and also make sure you have a contract in place that spells out all the conditions. It might not hurt to get some legal advice as to how to formulate such a contract or alternatively, modify one from some vendor, making sure to cover all the fine points. Building in contingencies such as delays in deliveries of parts, unforeseen issues, time delays, etc. is recommended. Also, depending on how much you make, you might need to do quarterly payments to the IRS to avoid tax penalties (assuming you're in the US for such matters, of course).

@Tobias Kreidl aka xenserver master is 100% correctly.

Doing fulltime consulting here in Denmark. Mainly on classic Citrix products, MDT, RDS, WSUS and a bit of powershell scripting

One very important thing that most folks are missing. Most IT Orgs have non-competing or conflict of interest policies so, in case you want to do do this as a side job, I'm pretty sure you'll be breaking your employer's policies, unless you get a written statement from somebody in charge there, that they're ok with you doing this, (very important!) as a side job

⤴️ Correct, and a very good point. We have to sign a document, stating we are not working for any competitive onterests, and must also disclose that we are in fact engaged in work outside of our regular employer and the nature of the work.

It depends on your day job. If youre already consulting, or working in PSO for a vendor, then yeah, you need to read your employment contract/agreement. You may end up violating it if you do side work that aligns closely with your day job. It may also depend on the size/type of customer you target...if you work for a firm that only deals with Medium/Large Enterprises and charges like it, then you may be fine doing some side work for local small businesses. But you could still run afoul of them if your employer wants to be an ass about it.