Careful thought can help you to determine if it’s right for you.
For some people, self-employment is only a dream. Others find the courage to do it, but discover that they were happier with a steady paycheck. Still others couldn’t imagine ever going back to a regular job.
Some say that you should start your own business when you have so much money that it doesn’t matter if you lose it-or when you have so little, there is nothing to lose.
But don’t let the money be the deciding factor.
Nowadays Network Marketing, Home Based Business does not require money to start of. You can also start part time.
Make sure you understand the realities of self-employment.
For example, working for yourself by yourself can be pretty lonely. It also requires a tremendous amount of self-discipline. You’ve got to get up and get going every day. The more you can stick to a regular routine, the more successful you are likely to be.
Be honest with yourself.
How much time are you willing to commit?
What Are you willing to do?
What are you willing to give up and for how long?
Tell you a story.
I became physiologically unemployable from 1974.
My first job in Canada was a
Shampoo girl. What are you going to do when you do not speak a word of English?
Shampoo girl. What are you going to do when you do not speak a word of English?
Never mind, that I had earned my degree in Soviet Union… You don’t speak English, go wash hair!
Not a problem. I loved working with people’s images. That was my intention. Hair Salon!!!!
Well, you start somewhere, right?
I washed thirty heads a day, mapped floors 10 times a day, cleaned ashtrays several times a day. Don’t forget the glass doors, mirrors, and shelves. Whoooo!
All of it for $1-50 an hour plus tips.
My one bedroom apartment rent was $160.00 a month.
One day the Salon owner asked me to stay behind at the end of the day.
Boy, the way she said it, got me worried. What did I do wrong?
Did I leave shampoo on one of her customers hair? Did I not rob their good enough? Or did I smell sweat?
Well, it could be anything. What if I am not good enough shampoo girl?
I asked a pedicurist who spoke Russian, and already spoke some English, to be my translator.
The Salon owner started.
“My ladies complain about you.”
“That’s it! I was right, I will be fired now!’ I thought to myself.
“Well,” she continued.
“They say, you look too much like a lady, not like a shampoo girl.
You wear your long cotton skirt and a knitted cotton top. Shampoo girls should be wearing jeans with a hole on a knee. They have to wear platform shoes, and have acrylic nails, so they can scrap ladies hair harder!”
I was shocked to hear that looking and acting like a lady supposed to look and act was wrong.
I looked at my boss with this question in my eyes.
She was waiting for me to say that I was sorry, and that would change.
I wasn’t not going to say I was sorry, and I was not going to say that I would change!
The silence lasted for a few seconds, and then she asked me.
“So? Are you going to change?”
“No!” I said with confidence.
That was the moment when I decided that I will never work for anybody from now on.
In ten months, I opened my first Hair Styling Salon.
Never worked for anybody ever since.
Was it hard?! You bet, it was!
Do I regret? Not for a minute!!!!
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