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Running your own business is rewarding. It comes with freedoms to choose what to work on, what projects to do, and there are no meetings. It also comes with st
by bruce511 2y ago
Running your own business is rewarding. It comes with freedoms to choose what to work on, what projects to do, and there are no meetings.
It also comes with stress because if stuff doesn't sell you don't get paid. And if you have staff they all get oaid first.
It can be an emotional roller coaster, feast or famine, where every task is a risk.
You also end up doing all those businessy jobs (marketing, accounting, sales, support) and you get very little time to do the "fun stuff".
I say all this so you can read it, and decide if the upside is worth the downside. Does the above make you happy or sad?
Given the current financial stress, perhaps you get a job and scale this back for a bit. Perhaps you focus harder on sales. Take some time, and get clarity on what you want to do.
I don't know I'd you have employees, but if you do you understand that they always believe they know better than you. It's easy to criticize management when you don't have to juggle all those balls.
If uou do go get a job, there will be cases where management does things differently. That's OK, but remember the stress they're under. Work to make their lives easier not harder.
By all means give them your input, but equally back them up whatever decision they make.
Good luck!
- whatsnext1 2y agoIts an absolute roller coaster, there is something so amazing to the feeling that I can be totally self-sufficient and generate money based from my own hard work, without having to answer to anyone else. But realistically looking at my situation, I think the wise idea is to get some financial stability, get a job, do it for a while, and then go from there. I think I would like to start an electronic engineering consultancy in the future, so ideally the job I find is in alignment with that skill set.