Well, I thank you all for your comments and insights. I still have a lot to think about. I am more clear about what I want now: to really help people focus on what they do best and let technology do the boring repetitive stuff. (I will develop that technology for them :) ) If a company can offer me that opportunity and is not too focused on their share price etc, then I will go for that. Anyway, I thank you all for your insights. I just read a quote from Arthur Ashe, which really hit me: “From what we get in life, we make a living; from what we give, we make a life.”

I am in a situation I am sure many of you have found yourselves in before I have just finished university and am looking at either taking a job at a big company (such as Accenture) or starting a small consulting company on my own. Both options seem rather big for me. Firstly, a company such as Accenture might force me to travel too much (meaning that family life will be left behind). Successful, quality and small software development houses don't really exist in my city (or I have yet to find one). Starting a consulting company with no real projects yet seems like an impossible thing to do. I am also developing a good product for teachers here in South Africa. Maybe I can go of selling that .... Any thoughts or maybe some random rants about your own experience?