What is/are self employement?
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You work for yourself, like a window cleaners or a writer.\n\nAdvantages - Freedom to plan your own work. No authority or boss. Can have time off when you need it. Low business costs.\n\nDisadvantages - Lots of responsibility, no job security. There is no one to cover for you. No proof of income (making it hard to get loans and mortgages).
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If you have to ask you don't need to be going into business for yourself.\nA business owner does and knows everything about his business from the lowliest job to the highest. He is the name on the door. He is responsible for everything that goes on in that business from payroll, to books, banking, paying bills, greeting customers, selling himself and his business.  He is working hours before he opens and hours after he closes.  Depending on the type of business dictates what he does and who he give certain responsibilities too. But he is still the one who makes the last decision.  \n\nMy advice is do not go into business for yourself if you want a life outside of work. Doesn't happen in the first five years. You are doing a mad dash in  making the place go. All your energy is in getting the business off of the ground and making it a success.
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I think it would be ideas thought up by an entrepreneur...someone who is a self starter.
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I'm in the same boat. I tell an employer that being self employed means that I have to spend too much time looking for clients and not enough time doing the work that I love to do.
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In getting in touch with the drivers that push a person to being self-employed, one realises, as research says (Brockhaus-1982), that the impetus comes from risk disposition, a sense of self-worth and the need to self-determine. The realisation that a job would rob one of a feeling of fullness allows an entrepreneur to stray into the world of creating an enterprise. \n\nAs an entrepreneur authors the enterprise, he quickly realises that he cannot be separated from it, like `the dancer from the dance' (Carland -1988), the two being meshed, and this becomes self-limiting. \n\nSmall-scale entrepreneurs, particularly the technocrat, the self-styled businessmen and small-scale manufacturer, symbolise the `craftsman' (Smith -1967), narrow in education and training, low in social awareness and certain limitedness in dealing with the environment. This however, does not take away from them an `internal focus' that superscribes their character. They are a bundle of conflicts - `men of action and ideas' (Schumpeter - 1931) - with a desire to take responsibility for their decisions, the desire to own their business as it offers economic freedom, a reliance on self, a willingness to accept challenges and a need to be their own boss. \n\nAgainst this is often high anxiety and poor organisation bordering on self-destruction at times. In many ways `an enigma' to many. \n\nWhen they start they do so with a lot of pride, with a sense of hope and a surging need to build and leave a legacy. But in a society characterised by traditional values they experience status deterioration and leading to psycho-social disequilibrium and a situation of depletion of self-esteem. \n\nAnger and anxiety contribute to a state of `retreatism'
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Self-service means masturbation...pleasing yourself.
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the unemployed should be responsible for themselves.
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I am writting articles about freelancer or self-employed, this may help you.
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heard of "self management"?
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just out of curiosity with credentials like that have you thought about starting your own buessness?
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Just like starting any business, working for yourself is a lot of hard work.  But since you are the boss, sky is the limit as far as earnings potential.  And yes, when you are more established, you can hire accountants to do the work and make money for you.
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no, If you want to work from home and make a decent living you will have to work for yourself start your own business
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I've personally always known that I want my own business from being very young, which is why i'm in a crappy position at the moment after uni to decide what i want to do in the meantime to get the funds to set up my business...i want to be my own boss and not be told what to do and have to hold myself back.\n\nGood for you and good luck if that's what you decide to do.
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The article "Why Self Employment?" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol15/self.htm talks of three goals for starting a business:\n\n1. Your Economic Goals = to increase your income and earn more money; replace income; and augment family income\n\n2. Your Retirement Goals = Corollary to your economic goals, some people start entrepreneurial ventures specifically to provide a comfortable nest egg for their retirement. They believe that they can do a better job of ensuring their future and making sure that they have money for retirement if they are in charge of their own income.  \n\n3. Your Personal Goals = For some people, money is not the sole attraction of self-employment. These people are driven by their own personal agenda that only the process of starting a business can provide. \n\nThis is what is often called "lifestyle entrepreneurship" where the lifestyle that entrepreneurship can bring is more important than any financial rewards
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1. The freedom to pursue your own vision.  You can have your own view of the world, and entrepreneurship is the only venue where you pursue that view and see the fruition of your vision. Self employment allows you to do your own thing, and pursue those areas that you feel passionate about.\n\n2. The control and flexibility you have over your own time. As your own boss, you work when you want to work; and stop if you don't want to work. You can tailor your work according to your lifestyle and accomodate various tasks. You can work in however way you please -- in your pajamas, with the TV loudly blaring -- without getting a memo from the personnel department.\n\n3. The opportunity to learn and gain knowledge. The entrepreneur oftens wear many hats -- the strategic planner, the marketer, the customer service rep, the sales rep, even the book keeper. There's a million things you probably didn't know before you started the business that you are now forced to learn -- and gaining all these knowledge enriches you as a person.\n\n4. The tremendous challenges faced as a business owner and the joy when you overcome them\n\n5. A sense of pride and fulfilment in accomplishing things\n\n6. The joy of teaching and sharing with others what you've learned in entrepreneurship\n\n7. The confidence you gain in knowing that you can do it\n\n8. The ability to earn more than what I could earn as a salaried employee. If I work harder and smarter, I can earn more dollars whereas as an employee no matter how hard you work, you only receive your base pay plus some bonuses.\n\n9. Profits of the business go to ME (or my business entity) not to the big corporate machine\n\n10. You never get bored: every day is a new challenge, new tasks and new discoveries
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Sole proprietorship - where a person does business on his or her own.  Typically no governmental filing is needed to establish.\n\nPartnership - where a group of persons agrees to do business together, all having liability for the business and right to participate in management, also known as a general partnership.  Limited partnership is a special type, where general partner has full liability and right to manage the business, and limited partners have limited liability but no right to manage the business. Established by signing a partnership agreement.  Governmental filings also required in some states to establish, especially for limited partnership.\n\nCorporation - a separate legal person; owned by stockholders and managed by a board of directors.  Established by filing articles with secretary of state or other state office and issuing stock.\n\nLimited liability company - also a separate legal person, but can be managed by owners (members) without a corporate-type board.  Established by signing an operating agreement and also filing articles with secretary of state or other state office.
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start your own business...