Seven+ years owning running my own business. Six days a week. No vacation beyond a day or two here or there. No change in sight. I feel your pain.
Sometimes “being your own boss” just means you’ve created a crappy job for yourself.
Oh well, the good news is that you can work half days anytime you want . . . whichever 12 hours of the day you want to work.
Living the dream. Living the dream.
I don't do it for the money. I do it so I can pick my own clients and escape the stifling idiocy of a corporate bureaucracy.
And work anytime you want. Christmas, New Years or any other holiday you want!
It is like you took the words right out of my head.
The real awful truth, though, is that in theory it would be worth it if we weren’t taxed beyond reason. The new tax laws are not going to be the help to me as I thought they would because of social security tax. We pay both portions (employee and employer) and it is has not been reduced and it crushes us. That on top of all of the other taxes, regulations, fees, etc.
I wouldn’t mind the voluminous hours and extended effort if I could keep more of my earnings. I still wouldn’t go back to poisonous office politics and moronic management, but there is no question in my mind that the initiative for self-employment and success at it are punished in this country. Made all the worse by low information citizens who assume that everyone who owns their own business is “rich” and rolling in cash.
“Seven+ years owning running my own business. Six days a week. No vacation beyond a day or two here or there. No change in sight. I feel your pain.”
A clear sign you don’t own a business system, but you are the system.
It is a difficult transition to working on your business, creating systems and a team that allows you to replace yourself.
Most never think this way and end up burning out, running out of money, or both.