If you dream of skipping the seemingly endless commute to work every day, and you also wish you did not have to put up with your boss who would be lost without you, then you might have what it takes to become self employed. Consider the ultimate perk of being at home with your family during the times they are available, such as after school and at meal time, while using big chunks of time for your work when all have flown the nest during the day to go to school. If all this appealing, then you simply owe it to yourself to look into the possibility of self employment. While there are different ways to go about achieving your goal, the road to self employment may be less traveled but it is nonetheless enticing. Yet before you bid your boss farewell, make sure you have what it takes to turn a dream into a profitable reality.
The first step is to figure out what you are doing with your life now and see if there is any way that you can do that at home. If you do something in an office, can you move most of your work to a home office? Are you providing something through a company that you can provide on your own from your home? If what you are doing cannot be done from home,...