ADVANTAGES OF BECOMING SELF EMPLOYED.

An increasing number of the popultation are choosing to become self-employed for several reasons - they know their jobs are not secure or they are simply fed up working for someone else and never seeing the rewards themselves. But is self-employment for everybody? Can it suit all careers and personalties? These are questions you will have to consider and decide in relation to your specific situation. However there are many, many advantages to becoming self-employed - so many that even governments across the globe are starting to value self-employment as a viable work opinion. So what are the advantages?
 
Be Your Own Boss
 
Possibly one of the most exciting and biggest advantages to becoming self-employed. You never have to listen to, be ordered around or boost your bosses' ego ever again. Now it is your turn to stand in the spotlight! You are now the one in control, in charge - the ultimate decision maker. But just remember becoming your own boss also brings its own huge responsibilities and challenges!

Do What YOU Want
Becoming self-employed allows you to do something that is not common in the workplace - work on what you want, like, enjoy or even love! All too often we are stuck in jobs and careers where we are not happy, dissatisfied or bored, but unfortunately we have no choice but to stay there - WRONG! Becoming self-employed can be the perfect remedy for this. Self- Employment allows you to be as creative and imaginative as you like. You choose what to do and in which direction to drive your business and clients.

 

Working From Home

 

Being self-employed means you can work from the comfort of your own home and you can set up your working space how and where you like it. But more importantly you will not have to fork out hard earned cash on travel expenses, travel time or rent for premises. Just remember to retain your receipts and bill for things like phone calls and other business related expenses. These will be required for claiming tax breaks in the future.

Self-Satisfaction
 
There is nothing like feeling that you have completed a task successfully. Now you get to receive the whole self-satisfaction, no-one can come along and claim your successes as their own. You are now in charge of setting goals and targets, deciding how and when they will be met and judging performance. Setting out on your own can be highly challenging, but imagine the feel good factor you achieve when you can attribute all your successes to one simple thing - your own hard work!

You Reap the Rewards Personally
Sick of being a team player, meeting targets and hearing about huge profits that you have made, but never actually see any evidence of these on your back statements? Well stop here, working for a big company means that although you can be the best employee, the hardest worker, the most experienced they have, you rarely are rewarded with a cash bonus or incentive. One of the key components to being self-employed is that all the profits belong to you! 

Earn Money For Yourself
Unfortunately the fact is that we spend most of out lives at work, trying everything to earn extra cash, get a pay rise, improve ourselves personally, socially and professionally. Many of us strive to be the best to stand out from the crowd but what for? They say that 'hard work pays of' but does it really. Well yes if you're self-employed. Working hard and focusing your life on your career can pay of and more importantly will solely benefit you not the hundreds and thousands of others also working towards the same goal!

Create Your Own Success
The opportunity to succeed is now in your hands. Becoming self-employed involves a huge risk - you are now solely responsible for creating your own destiny and more importantly success. You will have no-one to blame and no-one to make excuses to or for. So work hard, plan and weigh up decisions before making them because ultimately they will affect you and your potential to succeed. Why not get started now and set up a skills profile?

 

 

 

 

Choose Who You Work With
 
When you become self-employed, you now decide who choose to work with, answer to and take on as a client. Gone are the days when you were surrounded by people who you felt were unable to benefit or enhance your career. A new era has arrived- where you have the opportunity to totally wipe the slate clean and surround yourself with a whole new circle of professional associates - all of whom you have chosen personally for attributes and skills that will be useful to you and your budding venture. A word of caution choose your new colleagues and associates carefully and don't just accept the first offer of help without truly weighing up the benefits to you and your new enterprise!


Own Working Hours 
Becoming self-employed means you decide when and how much you work. You choose your own holidays and days off. This can a be an amazing advantage as you can now build your work around your own personal schedule. Remember though to actually take time off as when starting out you can easily become work obsessed, obviously it is essential to work hard but it is equally important to have time to reflect and relax.