Comments on: Top 10 Reasons NOT to go in business for yourself http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:48:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Going Solo « Voice of the DBA http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-42929 Going Solo « Voice of the DBA Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:47:27 +0000 http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/?p=491#comment-42929 [...] are 10 reasons not to go into business for yourself, which is an interesting list. It’s from someone who evangelizes the benefits, joys, and [...] [...] are 10 reasons not to go into business for yourself, which is an interesting list. It’s from someone who evangelizes the benefits, joys, and [...]

]]> By: Barbara Saunders http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-4604 Barbara Saunders Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:53:59 +0000 http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/?p=491#comment-4604 The paradox in this list: Some of these items are perceived as "disavantages" only if one has been brainwashed to accept employment as a default or norm. Take having to "self-fund" benefits. Benefits (or, more fundamentally, health care)is one of many necessities. I have to find a way to get myself food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and health care, (and maybe a couple of other essentials I've left off.) One way to go at the challenge is to just go for getting those things but the most expedient means -- "getting money" to buy the things, bartering, providing them for myself. "Enter into a relationship with an institution that supplies health insurance" is an extraordinarily convulted approach when you think about it! In reality, we have been hoodwinked: Why not think of the premium in time we pay for letting employers take care of the insurance thing as the "disadvantage", and providing it for ourselves as the default? The paradox in this list: Some of these items are perceived as “disavantages” only if one has been brainwashed to accept employment as a default or norm.

Take having to “self-fund” benefits. Benefits (or, more fundamentally, health care)is one of many necessities. I have to find a way to get myself food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and health care, (and maybe a couple of other essentials I’ve left off.)

One way to go at the challenge is to just go for getting those things but the most expedient means — “getting money” to buy the things, bartering, providing them for myself. “Enter into a relationship with an institution that supplies health insurance” is an extraordinarily convulted approach when you think about it!

In reality, we have been hoodwinked: Why not think of the premium in time we pay for letting employers take care of the insurance thing as the “disadvantage”, and providing it for ourselves as the default?

]]> By: Latarsha http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-4605 Latarsha Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:48:32 +0000 http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/?p=491#comment-4605 Great post. You hit the nail on it's head when you spoke about that fact that WE assume the roles of every department for our business. This means that either you've got to become savvy in those areas that aren't second nature to you. Or...you've got to find a way to find a way to bring that strength into your busines: either by forming a collaborative relationship with others who possess the strength, establishing a support circle that helps bring a balanced perspective, or by outsourcing to an established expert. Again...thanks for sharing your insight. Great post.

You hit the nail on it’s head when you spoke about that fact that WE assume the roles of every department for our business.

This means that either you’ve got to become savvy in those areas that aren’t second nature to you.

Or…you’ve got to find a way to find a way to bring that strength into your busines: either by forming a collaborative relationship with others who possess the strength, establishing a support circle that helps bring a balanced perspective, or by outsourcing to an established expert.

Again…thanks for sharing your insight.

]]> By: Rosalind Joffe, keep working girlfriend http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-4606 Rosalind Joffe, keep working girlfriend Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:12:17 +0000 http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/?p=491#comment-4606 I discovered you and your blog after listening to Robert Middleton's interview of you on blogging. Thanks for the great info! This list is terrific and I"m going to pass it on in my blog and to my clients. Since they're all people who live with chronic illness and want to be more successful in the workplace, self employment inevitably comes up. I'd add two more points to your list (12 is a good number, too). 11. Make sure that you have a business idea that people know they need and that this is something you care about putting all energy into. 12. Ask yourself if you are someone who likes working alone for long periods of time because that's what it's going to take. Rosalind I discovered you and your blog after listening to Robert Middleton’s interview of you on blogging. Thanks for the great info! This list is terrific and I”m going to pass it on in my blog and to my clients. Since they’re all people who live with chronic illness and want to be more successful in the workplace, self employment inevitably comes up. I’d add two more points to your list (12 is a good number, too). 11. Make sure that you have a business idea that people know they need and that this is something you care about putting all energy into. 12. Ask yourself if you are someone who likes working alone for long periods of time because that’s what it’s going to take.
Rosalind

]]> By: OfficeStuffer http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-4618 OfficeStuffer Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:38:16 +0000 http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/?p=491#comment-4618 <strong>Spread Some Office Love</strong> I read a lot of blogs. Among others, I read baby blogs, mama blogs, blogging blogs, music blogs, my new thing branding/marketing blogs (thanks to Know More Medias own Susan), wacky blogs, and not surprisingly office blogs. Obviously if you... Spread Some Office Love

I read a lot of blogs. Among others, I read baby blogs, mama blogs, blogging blogs, music blogs, my new thing branding/marketing blogs (thanks to Know More Medias own Susan), wacky blogs, and not surprisingly office blogs. Obviously if you…

]]> By: Banwo Oluwatosin http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-4607 Banwo Oluwatosin Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:48:54 +0000 http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/?p=491#comment-4607 I am also new to this lovely blog and its really been very educative. Keep up the gud wuk! Cheers www.freelancez.blogspot.com I am also new to this lovely blog and its really been very educative.

Keep up the gud wuk!

Cheers
http://www.freelancez.blogspot.com

]]> By: Chris Owen http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-4608 Chris Owen Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:10:10 +0000 http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/?p=491#comment-4608 I've just passed this post on to a client contemplating leaving her current job for her own business. Having knee-jerked my way out of one position when i wasn't ready, these tips encompass a lot of my learning since then. I’ve just passed this post on to a client contemplating leaving her current job for her own business. Having knee-jerked my way out of one position when i wasn’t ready, these tips encompass a lot of my learning since then.

]]> By: Lucas McDonnell http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-4609 Lucas McDonnell Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:35:31 +0000 http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/?p=491#comment-4609 A very interesting list. I know that people who start their own business often stick with their employer for exactly these reasons -- but work nights and weekend on their own business to still be able to take advantage of the benefits mentioned in your top 10. A very interesting list. I know that people who start their own business often stick with their employer for exactly these reasons — but work nights and weekend on their own business to still be able to take advantage of the benefits mentioned in your top 10.

]]> By: Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-4610 Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:21:54 +0000 http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/?p=491#comment-4610 I'm new to your blog, and you couldn't have chosen 10 better reasons not to go into business for yourself. The one that sticks in my craw is having to pay double Social Security tax--once for myself and once for the company. Still, being my own boss, being able to turn on a dime without having to wait for layers of approval from corporate, not having to babysit employees or work next to jerks or hear the phrase "your great idea just won't work," and taking off on a summer afternoon to weed the garden still beats working for someone. I’m new to your blog, and you couldn’t have chosen 10 better reasons not to go into business for yourself.

The one that sticks in my craw is having to pay double Social Security tax–once for myself and once for the company.

Still, being my own boss, being able to turn on a dime without having to wait for layers of approval from corporate, not having to babysit employees or work next to jerks or hear the phrase “your great idea just won’t work,” and taking off on a summer afternoon to weed the garden still beats working for someone.

]]> By: jami http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/2006/02/03/top-10-reasons-not-to-go-in-business-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-4611 jami Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:01:41 +0000 http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/?p=491#comment-4611 Believeing in this list just shows how DEPENDENT you are and how you let somebody else take over your future. When you're an employee, no matter how much you break your back, your boss still has control of your money. You're happy with that $10,000 paycheck? Well, your boss is happier with a $100,000 salary. Entrepreneurship is what the world needs today, not some empoloyer-dependent liabilities. Believeing in this list just shows how DEPENDENT you are and how you let somebody else take over your future. When you’re an employee, no matter how much you break your back, your boss still has control of your money. You’re happy with that $10,000 paycheck? Well, your boss is happier with a $100,000 salary. Entrepreneurship is what the world needs today, not some empoloyer-dependent liabilities.

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