re: I'm tired of working for someone else.

My family owns a business here in BR and the best advice i can give is to have an extremely understanding wife :) . Ours is in the service industry and we are the ones doing the work. It's 4 of us and we do the selling, performing the work, and the billing. Just be ready to have it take over your free time unless you want to grow it big enough that you hire someone else to do the day to day stuff.

Pros are you set your own schedule and the job security. And if you can keep the overhead low you can really turn some money out.

Cons are..you become married to your cell phone. You can't afford not to answer it. Also, our company has monthly/quarterly appointments so vacations become hard unless it's around a holiday weekend because if you take days off you are having to double up for a few weeks to catch up.

The biggest con for us is health insurance. All of us have always been on our spouses insurance, so you may want to look at how that will work.

Just be ready for the extra time. It better be something you are really in love with. A few months ago I turned down an operator's job to get away from it. Distance was the biggest reason to turn it down, but the thought of having a job where i could just have a set schedule, punch in/punch out (and make more in the long run) is extremely appealing.

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Mow lawns in the evening

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I cut grass on the side for an extra 10k/year cash. Hard to beat.