Do you want to work for yourself?

Working from home!

This is a DREAM for many of us! And being based at home has so many advantages! Like …

🧡 NO commuting! Wow. Imagine losing the financial and temporal expense of the rush hour, by getting out of it altogether!

🧡 NO office gossip! All that backbiting and “watercooler talk” that drains us, makes us suspicious, miserable, and victimised.

🧡 NO dressing up! You can wear what you feel comfortable in - all the time!

Is that you, perhaps? Would you like to lounge around in trackie bottoms without fear of criticism? 

🧡 NO punching the time clock! Your time is your own, to manage as you want.

🧡 And there are big pluses too - like tax breaks once you’re out of the PAYE system (that’s the UK tax system for employees - tax is deducted before you get your pay. In Ireland it’s called PRSI - I can’t remember what it really stands for, but popularly it was called Please Return Salary Intact!). 

🧡 Like seeing your children and saying “Hello!”, instead of “Who are you?” (Reminiscent of the man who said “And whose little boy are you?” to which the answer was, “Yours, father.”)

🧡 Like shopping when you like, cooking when you like, getting up when you want to, sleeping when you like …

Fancy any of that? I sure did - and enjoy it enormously!

It’s official!

According to a YouGov poll conducted during the lockdowns - YouGov is a British data analytics company - 57% of British workers wanted to be able to work from home after the pandemic.

Wow! It took a pandemic to show us what we already knew!

We hate commuting. We hate having to work to someone else’s schedule. We hate office politics. We hate being dragged into endless meetings. We hate having to dress up every day.

Yes, there are good things about working in a collective environment - but camaraderie is the only one I can think of in this digital age, where resources can be accessed remotely. Camaraderie and support - very important. Moaning and bitching behind people’s backs - highly detrimental!

And when you consider the number of people who cannot work from home - teachers, builders, health workers, service engineers, shop workers, factory workers, just for starters - that means that 57% represents a huge number of people whose jobs could allow them to work from home, and who want to continue at home. 

What about you? Do you prefer to be working from your own home, on your own time, having more freedom?  

As a Transition Coach, I love to see clients finding their own path - a path that suits them and allows them to get the best out of their lives!

Now let’s take this a step further:

Running your own business entirely!

It’s the ultimate in working from home - running your own thing from home. It could be that you have a service you can offer, and you’re not sure about the ramifications of working for yourself. Usually people are concerned that they’ll lose so much money from no longer being an employee that they daren’t risk it.

But everything in life involves risk, and nothing worthwhile happens without taking a risk. Think about your relationship, the place you chose to live in, the activities you choose to enjoy: they all involve risk - putting your money where your mouth is! 

So the big question remains: Are you ready to take a risk, to put your money where your mouth is?

Let’s see what risks you have to be brave enough to take! Do you think you could do what MM here did …