As you can see we are now at the advanced development stage.
When I was little I wanted to be an inventor. I know, most kids want to be firemen or cowboys or astronauts but I didn’t (well, astronaut appealed until I found out how hard the training had been). I loved reading science stuff and dreamed of discovering something massively important to the world. Of course we get older and realise being a fireman isn’t just rushing around in a loud red truck and that being a cowboy is hard, dirty, smelly, and you are 150 years too late anyway.
Same with my ideas for space travel and robot dinosaurs. I kept up my interest though and went on to study physics at Durham. One of the problems was that no one at school suggested engineering and as it sounded like oil and spanners and getting very dirty I chose a pure science. Unfortunately, I realised that pure physics is not really the best starting point for a career in engineering. I should have done more research!
So I went into accountancy. I still got to deal with figures and analyse numbers, which kept me happy.
I still had a hankering to create something new though and have been involved in a couple of start ups employing new ideas and new technology. Sadly, neither got off the ground but I did get a bit of the buzz of being involved with something potentially ground breaking, even if they were fairly niche products.
You don’t have to be producing spaceships or robot dinosaurs (although some companies are now; as the advert says, one generation’s impossible is the next one’s normal) but if you are solving problems and making new things or making them in new ways or with new materials then you can claim a bonus from the government’s R&D tax credit scheme.
Give me a ring on 01482 814895 or email at paul@pgsaccountancy.co.uk to ask how.
Have a great week and stay inspired.
Paul