Self Employed Jobs

Going self employed is something a number of people wish to do at some point in their life. There are a number of reasons for this:

• Tired of work / life balance
• Feel unappreciated by boss and company
• No room for advancement
• No training courses offered
• Tired of career path
• Change of life circumstances make current form of work impossible or unsustainable
• Feeling that you have hit the salary ceiling and want to find another way to boost your salary or remove the ceiling off it.

Those are just a handful of the reasond why many people consider, and some people decide to act upon when it comes to the prospect of becoming self employed. There are many more reasons still why people think about and choose to go self employed. However in this short article we want to look at whether to go straight into full time self employment or part time.

Well we will get straight to the point, for most people the answer is to start part time. Why? Well consider the fact that most businesses fail within the first year. In other words it is not easy. Starting up part time allows you to keep the safety of your job and regular income while you work on building up your new career. If you should fail, no harm done because you have exactly what you had before you decided to try to become self employed. In times of economic downturns, it is especially important that you do not compromise the security of a job in the “hope” that a self employed venture will pan out. So for most people, they should try to figure out a way to build their self employed business venture part time around their full time job.

However, there are of course pros and cons to quitting your job to go self employed full time, or contunuing to work full time, while building up your self employed business part time.

Self Employed Full Time

Advantages

• If your business concept is sound, in demand, and you can attract clients then you will very quickly find the decision to go straight into full time a wise decision
• You can plan your time.
• You are free from working from someone else

Disadvantages:

• Risk of things not working out, even if you did thorough research
• You do get business, but not as much as you had hoped for
• Can end up working longer hours than when you were employed

Self Employed Part Time Around Full Time Job

Advantages

• Keep the security of your job and income
• Earn more money as you become more skilled at winning business from your full time job
• You safely get to learn your craft and build your skills
• You are training and building a business part time that you can comfortably take to full time when ready.

Disadvantages

• You will have less free time for socialising – if you are taking the business seriously.
• It may be difficult in some circumstances to market your business outside of standard working day hours

If you are a mommy looking for self employed opportunities, there are quite a lot of possibilities you can look at. You first need to decide what line of business you are interested in. Do you love selling things? Are you creative? Do you love working with other people? When you’ve answered these questions you will have a better idea of what kind of self employed jobs you will be interested in.

If you love writing you can look at becoming a freelance writer. You have a great deal of flexibility in this profession you decide what you want to write and when you want to write it. You can write articles for online publications and websites or you can become a ghost writer and write fiction and novels for other people. The self employed opportunities in freelance writing are endless – visit some freelance directory websites and see for yourself.

In fact, any skill that you have that you can offer from home you can do on a freelance basis. Do you know how to design web pages or graphics? You could offer that. Can you program? You could offer that. Are you good at creating MS Office macros? You could offer that. Many people are looking for people with skills that they do not have or people that can take on some of the workload.

If writing isn’t for you, you can look at network marketing or multi level marketing opportunities. There has been a great deal of negative publicity about this business opportunity, but if you research the company and the product you will be selling, you are sure to find an mlm business opportunity that will suit you. If you are considering a multi level marketing business as a viable option you need to love working with people.

This is probably the number 1 reason why most people fail at network marketing, their personality does not fit the product or service that they are promoting, and they are not that great at working with other people. It has been said that teachers are quite successful in this business, and that is because they understand their students needs, and know how to relate to their students and their needs, instead of trying desperately to push the business opportunity and the products on people.

Another option for a self employed, stay at home mom is to sell things over the internet. You can open an online shop on a website such as ebay. You can then sell tangible objects or you can sell information products. Information products include ebooks, how-to guides, software etc.

If you love kids you can open a day care centre from your home. Any self employed opportunities that involve child care should be well researched. You will need to find out what the regulations are for day care mothers in your state. You will also need to convert your home according to any state regulations as well as the health department specifications. So be sure to check out your legal obligations before you go any further.

If you have any special artistic talents, convert this into a self employed, stay at home business opportunity. If you love and know music, why not give music lessons from your home. Music teachers are a dying breed and there is a great need for their services in the community. Similarly, many people are always looking to learn a second language, so if you are fluent in more than one language, you could offer one to one schooling, or maybe group schooling sessions. If you are very creative, give creativity lessons for children. You can teach them to use their imaginations to make special artwork.

These are only a few ideas of opportunities for stay at home moms. Think outside of the box and challenge yourself if none of the above appeal to you as there are more ideas out there. Freelancing your computing or writing skills are the easiest ways of making an extra income from home, so you do not need to be away from your kids. And because of the flexibility offered by this type of work, they are some of the best self employed opportunities for stay at home moms.

Sometimes it can be confusing knowning where a self employed job ends and a regular employed job begins; are you self employed or an employee?

To determine what it is, some questions need to be asked to determine whether you are truly independent from the person or company that you are providing services to, or whether in effect you are woking more under their control as an employee would

A case in piont of this scenario is the following Q&A.

A job offer , for a company that provides text services , I would work from home from my own pc, I would be told which days and times I would be working , no room for compromise.
Given targets to reach each month and paid bonus should I reach the target .
Is this a self employed based job as was told or the job of an employee?

Sensible answers only please.

No question about it – you would be an employee. A self-employed person would be able to choose where and when to work on a day to day basis so “targets” are irrelevant; bills for a fee so a “bonus” is irrelevant – and can get someone else to do the work but still bill the fee for it.

Of course the best thing to do if you are unsure whether you are self employed or an employee is to speak to an advisor at your local tax office, or someone legally qualified and familiar with this type of scenario.