Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Go Home!
Do you hate your job? Join the world. The majority of working Americans dislike what they do. Yet every morning they continue to slam their hand on the alarm clock and drag their bodies out of bed, towards the coffee pot, and out the door for another workday. Why? “Another day, another dollar,” as one local businessperson says. These work-haters have something in common. The majority of them work for someone else, and they work in an office. It’s no wonder that more individuals are finding a way to work from home than ever before. Home business ownership offers advantages that few jobs do.
First and foremost, the home business offers both flexibility and freedom of hours. The typical workhorse has to arrive at work by a specific time and stay at his job until a specific time. As a result, many employees learn to me or less put in their hours instead of do their job. They are compensated for the hours they put in instead of the work they do. Regardless of if they do a mediocre or incredible job, they receive the same salary. Sure, a few businesses will offer moderate compensation for a job well done, but most simply pay their workers. Thus the worker spends the day looking at the clock, watching the seconds and minutes tick by. When a person works from home, he determines his own hours. He determines when he starts and when he quits. Thus he can begin his day at noon if he likes. He can work from 10pm to 2am if that works best for him. He can format his work around his best waking hours instead of formatting his best waking hours around his work.
Secondly, the home business offers freedom of decision. Those who own their own business have the blessed opportunity to decide where their business will go and what they will do in it. Do they want to do the secretary work? If not, hire a secretary. They can consider an internship with a local high school and have high school students do their basic filing and paper work that they hate. They can decide which clients to take and which to ignore. They also can decide how much to charge for their service or product. Their freedoms have endless limits. With their own business, they are the king or queen of their world, and they directly decide what their business will accomplish and how it will accomplish that.
Third, those who work from home have the opportunity to work in a great environment. Have you ever gotten stuck in a cubicle in the middle of a cube farm? Could you hear your neighbor sucking his Frostie through a straw and the other tapping her foot as she worked? Maybe your office smelled like an old building or the janitor’s toxic cleaning products? While workers certainly have input on their work environment, none fully control it accept for the home business owner. He decides how his house smells, what color he will paint the walls, what art he will hang, and even, to an extent, what ambient noises he will hear.
Pleasing work environments lead to productivity. However, everyone has a different definition of “pleasing,” and thus the home business owner can cater his work environment to whatever works best for him.
Finally, the independent self-starter will be living in his dream world when he chooses to slip out of his loafers and into his fuzzy slippers for work. These Mavericks are unlike any other worker, and they succeed the most in the home business world because they do not care what others think, and yet they are willing to get the job done to serve their clients. Those who relish the maverick lifestyle should seriously consider the world of home business ownership.
