Why you should work for yourself #2

More reasons and inspiration on why you should consider self-employment, again, from the experts but I've added my own experience.

2. The satisfaction:
People who work for themselves never revert to working for someone unless forced to. All my self-employed friends say so. Ask anyone who is their own boss and 99 out of 100 will say they'd never. (That 1 person probably was incredibly unlucky) For all the worry, isolation and hard work they went through and still go through, it's still preferable to working for someone else. This should be enough reason to convince anyone it's worthwhile.

Of course they took a risk leaving paid employment but the rewards are independence, job satisfaction and sometimes better remuneration. No guts, no glory. It's worthwhile when considering a start-up to talk to as many people who own their business about what they feel, and of course how they did it.

Also, what about the freedom and flexibility of working hours and conditions? Punch cards and clocking-in makes me feel like a robot. Large companies evaluate employees' productivity by quantity; because they can't deploy enough resources to monitor quality, therefore use the 9-5 as a method of guaranteeing that at least some quantity of work is seen to be done.

Best of all, you don't have to suck up to your boss, or if you don't do that anyway, watch others do it and get ahead, immerse in blame culture, maintain the status quo,... the list goes on based on all the gripes I've heard.

Everybody’s experience is different of course - there are real barriers that prevent people from taking that step, or make it hard. Some friends say they'd love to strike out on their own, but just don't have any money, or have huge financial commitments like mortgages, etc. I understand how a relatively secure job trumps chasing one’s dreams when there are such pressures around. However, if I want it enough, I'm certain there’s a way.