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At Home: Pros and Cons
by Jeff Cohen
If you’re thinking about starting a home business,
you’ve got to realize one thing about life. Life has a certain
balance: there is no pleasure without pain, and there are no
pros without cons. Here’s a look at both the upside and downside
of running a home businesses.
Pro: Your Independence. You do what you want, when you want
to. No-one else can screw up your hard work, and you don’t
need to depend on anyone but yourself. Your days of being told
what to do are over. And there’s no dress code, either! Many
people who work from home admit to sitting around in their
pyjamas all day, or even working in the nude.
Con: No Security. With independence, though, comes responsibility.
There’s nobody to carry you if you do badly one day – if you
don’t make any money for the business, then you don’t get paid.
People like certainty in their lives (that’s why they spend
big bucks on insurance) – it can be hard to live with this
ultimate step in performance-related pay. You might find yourself
quickly wishing you had a regular paycheque again.
Pro: Flexible Working. You decide your hours. If you want
to take Wednesday off and work Saturday instead, then no-one’s
stopping you. If you’d like to get up early and cram all your
work into the mornings so you can have the afternoons off,
then hey, you’re the boss. Such flexibility can be a massive
relief after years of working nine to five.
Con: Work Never Ends. When you work from home, it can be tempting
to be constantly monitoring things, even when you’ve decided
you’re not working. The only person who can handle a crisis
is you – and crises have a tendency to happen in the middle
of the night, or on your day off.
Pro: Keeping All the Money. Everything you earn is yours to
keep. It can be truly disheartening to work somewhere where
cash is being handled, and realizing that the revenue for the
day adds up to a hundred times more than you got paid. You
know that someone’s getting rich off your back, but it’s not
you – working from home makes you the fatcat at the top.
Con: Doing Everything. Not all that money was profit, you
know. It goes on things like marketing, management, stock control,
deliveries, and so on. Suddenly you have to manage everything
that goes on in your business – you deal with suppliers on
one end and customers on the other, you have to do all the
budgeting and spending, and you become your own marketing department.
You get to deal with all the fun tax issues, too.
Pro: No More Commuting. Commuting is expensive, painful, and
can feel like a complete waste of time – just think of all
the time and money most people spend travelling to and from
work. When you have a home business, you just get up and you’re
right next to your workplace – isn’t that convenient?
Con: One Less Room. Your house can feel a lot smaller when
you’ve had to set one room aside as your ‘home office’. When
you’re not working, it just sits there, useless, and meanwhile
your kids are getting upset at how small their bedrooms are.
Pro: A Healthier Lifestyle. When you only have an hour’s lunch
break to do everything you need to do, you can end up running
yourself into the ground and not eating properly. Working from
home lets you do your errands when you want, and eat good food
every day.
Con: The Loneliness. If you’re the only one around in your
house during the day, it avoids distractions – but it can also
feel very lonely. If you’re the kind of person who likes being
around other people, you can start to get quite depressed.
But…
If you talk to anyone who works from home, they’ll probably
say to you that, for them, the pros far outweigh the cons.
Once you’re doing your own thing and feeling great, it’s hard
to go back to a salaried existence – and remember, it’s far
easier to work around your problems in a home business than
it is to deal with any problems you might have at work. # # # # # SolveYourProblem.com : 2007
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