Working for yourself

After reading this, if you do strike out on your own, how are you going to keep from becoming "fed up" with your clients?

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After reading this, how are you going to keep from becoming "fed up" with your clients?

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This is a fantastic question, and one that I've had to ask myself and part of the reason I am not jumping.

Realize that there is a lot of value in knowing you will get paid every two weeks (or regularly). Working for yourself means you may not get paid, or worse yet, just see your money disappear into the void. Big question - are any other people dependent on your income?

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This is a fantastic question, and one that I've had to ask myself

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It seems like to me what you need is emotional intelligence and discipline. In your case, that is what's going to help you thrive in a business environment (either working for someone or working on your own).

It's rough.

I'll take the regular hours and paycheck even with the aggravation.

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for other people they might be willing to put up with some micro-manager or having to punch a clock, in order to feel like they have more “security”

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I think this is where I literally will not function. If I'm being micro-managed at a job, I make plans to leave. I haven't come across it in accounting so much, but when I was younger if I started a warehouse job and there was a micro manager, I would leave sometimes immediately. I can't deal with it. Not "I don't want to put up with this". I will literally just leave the situation. I have faith I can find something else, and at the end of the day I always feel like I'll be fine.

Even when we lived 2000 miles away my mindset has always been to evaluate the situation, if the reward is not there for what you're dealing with, you can find something else. You'll be okay.

This is where I have to be careful. Clients are your boss when you're self-employed. You have a lot more, and you have some flexibility to choose some of them, but if you're starving you might have to eat some shite. Can I deal with that?

33
90k
Me and my wife.

Edit - I’m 33 not 32. Forgot.

The most supportive person in my life. Divorce isn’t coming. We’ve been through a ton together, it would have happened by now.

What kindof business do you want to start?

Certainly not impossible but certainly not easy. I decided to do this in my late 30s about 5 months before Covid hit. For 4 years I fought like hell to keep my people with families employed, all bills paid on time to any vendor and hustled my arse off to get us certain projects.

This shite is not for the meek. It helps that you have some Capital going into something like this but a lot can go wrong if you’re not thorough. Other than a strong work ethic, I sincerely believe you need to be a person with integrity. Sure, we all know some of these sleeze balls that have none and it seems they’re are getting by without repercussions but it will ALWAYS come back to bite them.

We’ve been incredibly blessed after struggling close to 4 years but we have been rolling the last 17 months. Have been blessed more than I could’ve hoped for (knock on wood).

There’s a lot of liability and responsibility you’re accountable for. That weight can feel pretty heavy sometimes. I’m not trying to scare you but there are a shite load of things you need review and pray about before just jumping in. I’m not saying don’t not do it because of fear of failure. If you’re scared of the horses arse you’ll never see his face. Just make sure you’ve done your due diligence.

ETA: And sometimes I do want to go back to consulting for big firms like I did in the past. When you own your own though, my downtime/ off time has been almost zero the past nearly 6 years. Some of that has to do with me though.