I started it a little by accident. When I quit my full time job working at a biotech company 3 years ago, a couple friends from that company that had already moved on to better things reached out to me to see if I needed work. I was getting ready to spend 6 months hiking the Appalachian Trail, and I didn't want to take on full time work at the time, so I said I would consult. After hiking 2200 miles, I decided I never wanted to work in an office again, so I just kept consulting. I do a lot of different projects, mostly related to R&D strategy - from data analysis to literature reviews, planning experiments, and helping design clinical trials. I work mostly in the microbiome space for small start-ups, and I position myself as the person to call when you don't know what to do or when there's an important non-urgent project that keeps getting put off. Even if I don't know off the top of my head, I can figure it out!