I worked for Business in Africa  first as Senior Designer then as an Art Director for a period of 10 months when I was retrenched due to the fact that the company had to cut back and it was not viable for them to retain a full-time Art Director for a limited number of publications. As part of the retrenchment agreement was that I would continue to do the design and layout of the company's own magazine Business in Africa Magazine as well as maintain the existing client base, and that I would have first option to quote on any new projects.