Quote: (05-17-2014 09:21 AM)LaCobra Wrote:
I get the feeling that when im not doing anything work related im wasting my life and my competition is fucking me. I know this is not 100% true, but how do you guys handle this.
I had this feeling for the first year or so of being self-employed. Eventually, you realize ( / remember?) that YOU get to control how much work you do.
This, in my opinion, is the major upside of self-employment. YOU get to decide how much of your life you pour into it.
If your goal is to be a kingpin and dominate a market and get rich as hell, then you put in the work to make it happen.
If you're content to live off of a part-time work schedule and have a life of significant leisure, you're allowed to do that too.
Self-employment, for me, was always more about the freedom to decide for myself how much I would put into it.
(Note, this is self-employment, not running a business, as player said. For reference I am self-employed and have no employees depending on me.)