The Basic Home Self Employment Hazards
Most people love the idea of working at home for themselves. Being your own boss has its advantages as well as its shortcomings. Scheduling your own time can be very rewarding or financially disastrous depending on your personality. Working at home can create a freedom like no other and again, your personality will determine whether or not you can handle such liberation. Not everyone can.
When I first started my own business working from home our space was limited and I needed a quiet place to get things done. This meant that my home office was literally right next to the bed. I could sit up in bed and take one step into my office chair and I was at work. This had advantages, but I was working ridiculously long hours to get my business off the ground.
The bed had a habit of calling to me about three weeks into my program. Despite my determination it called to me as soon as my energy started to dwindle and the yawning began. Some mornings I was up at two oclock to get a jump on the day. By ten oclock in the morning the bed began demanding I come back to it.
I was at the very least able to restrict myself to one...