Behind every company there are people with a life at home.
Why I also work with private clients — and why it makes sense.
There's one thing I've learned over the years: when it comes to technology, the line between work and private life hardly exists any more.
The manager whose company infrastructure I look after goes home in the evening and uses a Mac. The consultant who needs Google Workspace for her practice takes photos with her iPhone at the weekend and wants to find everything synced. The professional who is super-organised at the office has a backup at home he hasn't run in three years.
That's why I also work with private clients.
THE PROJECT
A client — whom I also look after professionally — had a Mac that was starting to show its age. Slow, out of space, freezing a bit too often. It was time to move to a new machine.
Easy to say.
But a Mac isn't just any object: inside it there are years of photos, documents, configured apps, digital habits built up over time. Rushing means risking losing something you can never get back.
WHAT I DID
I handled the whole migration: restoring the Time Machine backup onto the new Mac, checking that every file, every setting and every preference had come across correctly.
Updating all the programs to their latest versions, checking active licences and clearing out what was no longer needed.
At the end, a full check: the new Mac worked exactly like the old one — but fast, up to date and with years of life ahead of it.
WHY I DO IT
I don't do it to fill my diary. I do it because a client who trusts me with their company deserves the same attention when they have a problem at home. And because it's often in exactly those moments — less formal, less structured — that the strongest trust is built.
Technology doesn't stop at the office door. Neither do I.
If you need help at home too, get in touch and I'll bring the...
