Self-employment is the ultimate freedom.
Once you have found a way to be self-employed,
and you have at least some success within
it, you will find that it gives you
amazing flexibility, a deep sense of
job security, all the joy of not having
a boss, and the knowing that you are
in charge of your life. What more could
anyone want from a way to earn a living?
If you are making the transition
into self-employment, or if you already
are self-employed and are needing
some encouragement, I have gathered
some important suggestions to help
ease you into this most liberating
experience.
First off, you have to rally take
a close look at what underlies your
sense of security. Can you get true
security from a 9-5 job as an employee?
Sure, there is an undeniable steadiness
factor involved: You work and gert
a reliable paycheck. There is some
security in that, but it may or may
not be only skin deep.
Do you have a true sense of trusting
the course of you life? Can you embrace
change and growth and flow? Those
are the attributes that bring a deeper
sense of security. Self-employment
may help foster those attributes more
than a 9-5 job can. The reason? 9-5
jobs as an employee are not can come
and go to!
You may be fired, or your spouse
may need move, or a life change can
abruptly end the job for you.
So, never get your true security
for your job. If you look for it there,
you will have a life laden with disappointment.
Or at best, you will have a steady
life, with an equal amount of fear
that it is going to become unsteady.
You have to get your security from
the inside. That is the most important
thing you must learn in order to transition
into self-employment.
Once you start to do that, you need
to make peace with being under-employed.
At some point, you will need to quit
your old job, right? Take the leap
of faith? Of course, it is scary,
but you must find a way to accept
it, and if you do not find a way,
becoming self-employed could stay
forever out of reach.
So, most likely, under employment
will be your state of affairs at first.
If you are eligible for unemployment
benefits, now is the time to cash
them in. Many people who are transitioning
out of being employed actually find
ways to collect unemployment as they
are making this life change.
It is not as hard as you may think
to become self-employed. You start
from the ground up. Learn from people
who have done it. Go to libraries
and read books on it. Get your true
security from the iside, take action
and you will find you way. The freedom
of self-employment may be just what
the doctor ordered.
