| In my career I have worked in 9-to-5 jobs, I've run my | | | | business. Time flies, there's always something |
| own business, I've worked in conventional jobs while | | | | interesting to do, and you're much more flexible in |
| nurturing a small business on the side, and I've started | | | | setting your own hours. Even if you work long hours, it |
| small businesses that then became careers. I liked the | | | | seems like less because you're having fun, and when |
| relative stability of corporate life with its regular | | | | your family needs you, you can always make time. |
| paychecks, but I didn't like the politics and rigidity of a | | | | What most people don't realize is that it isn't hard to |
| corporate career, and I didn't like the fact that if I lost | | | | start your own business, and that almost anything can |
| my job, I'd have no fallback position other than | | | | become a business. What is required is thinking things |
| unemployment. As a result, even when I had a 9-to-5 | | | | through. You need to have a realistic idea of what it is |
| job, I always tried to have some sort of business on | | | | you want to do, and can do, and how to go about it. |
| the side that, should I lose my primary source of | | | | You also need a business plan that outlines the project, |
| income, had the potential to scale up to support my | | | | what you want to achieve, and how you intend to go |
| family and me. In the process I discovered that I really | | | | about it. There is more than one way to do a business |
| much preferred running my own business and working | | | | plan, and it also depends on the type of business. |
| for myself. However, that means having a good idea | | | | What matters is that you have a clear idea, apply |
| what sort of business start up funding you'll need. | | | | common sense, and that your assumptions are |
| Why is this something you should think about? | | | | realistic. |
| Because starting your own business can be hugely | | | | Almost all business start ups need money, though, and |
| satisfying and rewarding. It will not necessarily lead to | | | | this can be a problem, especially in difficult economic |
| riches and a life on easy street. In fact, you may work | | | | times. You may have heard of various types of small |
| harder running and growing your own business than | | | | business start up loans that can help you get going, but |
| you do in a corporate job, but the work is so much | | | | finding and applying for the right one is tricky and you |
| more rewarding. And, for a variety of reasons, when | | | | need to know how to go about it. Business startup |
| you're working in your own business, time passes | | | | money is still available even in these hard times, but it's |
| much more quickly, and you seem to get much more | | | | more important than ever to have a plan and some |
| done. I remember looking at my watch every five or | | | | very concrete ideas as to what kind of business start |
| ten minutes when I worked in a 9-to-5 job, hoping it'd | | | | up funding is available and required. If you go about it |
| be lunchtime yet, or time to go home. I never felt that | | | | the right way, I can tell you from experience that it can |
| way when I worked for myself or ran my own | | | | be well worth it. |