Taking in the air

Year 2 Survive the first year.
Survival seems likely, as the usual stage in that first year is that you survive on your redundancy payout and live a frugal life but, you have not established yourself yet, people still don't who you are and will be missing out on business that would have been yours in normal circumstances. These are not normal circumstances. Regardless of the fact that 51% of the business registered in companies house (and these are only the limited liability ones) are SME's and the 90% of those have a turnover less than £50K per year; starting your own business is NOT a normal thing to do in the UK, most individuals work for someone else and that matters. Now we will probably reach the end of the year and have to do a set of accounts which will mark a steady downhill slide into the Tax and red tape abyss which constrains and bleeds most small businesses to death.