When you work for yourself you get to make the rules. Yes you do have to make your clients happy, but that is only if you want to keep them.
There are a few things I hear often in the world of small business owners/entrepreneur:
“When you work for yourself you get to pick which 80 hours a week you work.”
“Be careful, you don’t want to the worst boss that you ever had.”
I agree with the latter and I think it is a derivative of the former. There is this notion that if you want to be self made that you must work twice as hard as your average labored worker.
This simply is not true.
Maybe there are times where you have to work more than average but the end goal does not have to be this. Unless you are a workaholic maniac, you certainly do not need to work 80 hours a week.
The pursuit of stuff we do not need, to impress people we do not like, is a fools game.
Do not be your own worst boss. All of my awful bosses had one thing in common, they did not understand how to get the best work out of the people they managed.
Figure out how you work best and then develop a system around that. It will not be perfect and you will have to adapt accordingly.
If you have ever worked for a manager, that manager is just there to make sure that the system that someone else developed runs as efficiently as possible. When big companies are purchased their product is not being bought, there system is. They work, they work will, and they are highly sought after.
