There are a lot of reasons to work at home: a great environment, freedom in the work place, a certain financial independence. But…are you capable of it?
Are you too lazy to work at home successfully? When you work forty hours a week for someone else and strive every day on the job, your first reaction is going to be “no, absolutely not.” But when you’re all alone and no one is around, everything suddenly becomes different. Asses your self employment capability, and find out if you’re up to the task of working at home.
Asses Yourself
It’s easy to be self indulgent when you are your own boss, easy to play solitaire instead of finishing off that job search, easy to think “I can just save that for tomorrow” when really you should probably get it done today. Everyone is probably guilty of a little laziness, whether they work for themselves or for someone else. But does that mean you can’t stand up to self employment? Asses your self employment capability, and find out.
Everyone works differently, but some are perhaps more suited to self employment than others. Are you capable of shutting out all distractions to the point of obsessing on a single project? Can you meet a deadline - no matter what it takes, and even if it’s self-imposed? Can you deal with not knowing your own future and having a rather unstable economic future from time to time?
Working at Home
The truth is, when you love what you do laziness doesn’t play a part. Sure it’s easy to get distracted at home and sure it’s easy to put off or ignore work which ought to be done. But when you love your job, none of it matters. If you love the idea of going it alone and working only for yourself, then you just might love being self employed.
