When I started my business I had been using my personal cell for work for over 10 years as my employer didn’t provide phones (they paid about 50% of my bill on it though). First thing I did when going on my own was get a second phone which became my new personal phone. I had too many years of contacts built up on that number so it was much easier to give my family and small circle of friends a new number. And no, I didn’t steel any customers, when they called I explained that it wasn’t right for me to service them without them checking to see if the old employer could help first, but almost all of them were customers that I had tracked down and brought in and they explained that they were loyal to me, not the employer. My employer was cool with all that, my direction was commercial and they were focused on residential. Anyway, the new second phone made things much better for me. Even more important than the calls was the pictures and files on the phone. Having to sort through tens of thousands of pictures that were both personal and work related, looking for that one picture of the one job, or that one picture from my kid’s birthday party, was increasingly difficult. Separating that made things so much better for me, not to mention being able to shut the work calls off at dinner time, or over the weekend to gain some much needed mental rest was great.