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Don't Want to Work?

Don't Choose Self Employment

Jul 31, 2008 KC Morgan

Ah, to lie in bed all day and watch movies. To make money without working. To earn rewards without effort. Don't want to work? Don't choose self employment.

Many may not admit to it, but most people don’t want to work. Who would choose work over a lazy day with the remote, labor over an afternoon of fishing? The truth is, everyone would like to learn how to earn without effort. The rest of that truth is, it’s not really possible. Don’t want to put a lot of hard effort into the job? Then don’t choose self employment.

Who Wants to Work?

For the majority of people, work means following orders, following through and following up on projects. It might mean performing hard labor, serving customers, standing in a single spot all day or sitting at a desk in a professional setting. But it all means the same thing: performing certain tasks to receive a certain paycheck. Who wants to work? Almost no one. Who has to work? Almost everyone.

Choosing Self Employment

There is a certain myth that, for those who like what they do the work no longer seems like work. While this may be true in some cases and on some days, there is an even greater truth: no one really wants to work every single day, all day long even when the work is well-loved.

Even a dream job can feel burdensome when professionals have to forgo the sweeter pleasures of slacking off and very simply not working. When it is no longer a dream but a day-in, day-out reality of forty and fifty hour work weeks, even a dream job can suddenly feel tedious.

Don’t want to spend holidays, Sundays and all the days in-between on the job? Then don’t choose self employment. Even well-established work at home professionals may find working weekends, holiday office hours and extra-long days on the job a necessity. In fact, self employment can be one of the most difficult career paths to pursue.

Working for Self

Television, phone calls, neighbors, the kids, a comfortable working environment….in self employment, the benefits can also be the pitfalls. Sure, professionals get to relax at home instead of dressing to the nines for another date with the office, but all those perks of the job can be possible working failures, too. It’s hard to concentrate when talk shows are so interesting, hard to keep up a steady flow of effort when neighbors and friends call or visit to steal concentration away. Just when all is flowing and work seems to be - finally - progressing, the kids suddenly need to be broken up before they tear the house down.

And suddenly, work life and home life are no longer separate. This can be the hardest part of working at home - finding a delicate balance between career and family, work at home and home chores. In many cases, self employment is a much harder job than whatever career came before.

Don’t want to work? Don’t try to have a work at home career.

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