Is Self-Employment the Answer?
Working
for yourself is a great improvement over being an employee
- mainly because you now have the right of self-determination,
especially once you understand how important marketing
is to your success. There are also some tax benefits (even
though most were eliminated in the Tax Reform Act of 1986
and subsequent "fixes"). But the bottom line is,
out of the four
ways to earn money in a capitalism-based economy,
self employment still winds up a distant third on the
success chart.
The
biggest problem with being self-employed in the traditional
sense, is the toll that the lifestyle eventually takes
on your body and your life over the long haul. According to
noted experts Paul and Sarah Edwards, the average work
week for a self-employed person is sixty-one hours long. That
means many entrepreneurs work a lot longer than that. You
start out happy to be able to work "when you want",
and end up working "all the time".
Because
you are highly trained, better than most at what you do,
and in demand, you actually become the business.
Your clients come to depend on you - and only you
- to do the work you're so good at.
Ask
any successful doctor, chiropractor, attorney, accountant,
computer consultant, web developer, or auto technician what
would happen to their small business if they left it for six
months. Most will tell you they feel like they can't even
leave for a six day vacation.
...And
of course, the more money you make, the harder the tax man
cometh.
In
other words, you don't own your company; your company owns
you. You have, in fact, traded in a "full-time"
job for an "all-the-time" job. Many entrepreneurs
can't even find
the time to market their business effectively,
so they work even harder. And while they may be financially
successful, even greatly so, they sacrifice time with their
families in order to provide for them monetarily.
To
me, real success is more. To me, success means having both
money, and the time to enjoy it. Some may say that's
being greedy. Some say you can't expect to be wealthy and
happy at the same time.
Some
even say there's no way to beat the system anyway,
so why bother trying?
I
say life rarely gives us more than we demand, so we should
demand all that life is willing to give. I believe that wealth,
comfort, and financial
freedom were created for everyone to enjoy,
not just miserable people who abuse their gifts by inflicting
pain on others.
I
believe the only hope the rest of the world has, comes from
good people who have gotten their needs met and can afford
to give to others. So I want all the blessings the universe
has in store for me...don't you?
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