The Best Thing About Leaving My Day Job - Perks Of Being An Entrepreneur - Flexibility & Freedom

It seems almost everyone has a dream of someday working for themself and not working for somebody else. Almost everyone at some point or another has dreamed of being an entrepreneur.

Being an entrepreneur can be very rewarding and there are many benefits to working for yourself. It seems a lot of people think if they didn't work for someone else they wouldn't have stress or they wouldn't have to work as many hours.

I can tell you nothing could be further from the truth. Most entrepreneurs probably work many more hours than someone working a 9-5 for someone else. I can also attest to the fact that being an entrepreneur doesn't eliminate stress from your life. In some ways it can be even more stressful. Where as most people know how much effort they have to put in to stake by and keep their job, when you're an entrepreneur, your livelihood and your income lies on your shoulders and you alone. If you don't make sales, if you don't have success, you don't get a paycheck.

So though entrepreneurship does isn't the Holiday many people envision it being, it does have it's perks.

I quite my job a little over a month ago and my favorite part of being an entrepreneur has to be the freedom and flexibility. It's not that I'm not working as many hours, I am probably working more hours than I was at my day job and in some ways it's even more stressful. What I do have however, is flexibility.

When I worked at my day job I was pretty much tied down there from 9:00 to 5:30, I really didn't even have much flexibility to leave for lunch. If I had to pickup my nephew from school, or get an oil change, or have a workman come to the house, it meant I had to take a day off work if I could even arrange one which typically I could not.

That is one of the things I enjoy most about being an entrepreneur, is that I make my own schedule. Granted my cusotmers are my boss and I have to be available to them. That said due to the nature of my business if I want to stay up a bit later, sleep in a bit longer, enjoy my coffee and read the paper leisurely before heading into work I can do that. I'm not worried about getting fired if I'm not in by 9AM, I can stroll in at 10 or 10:30 and it's not a big deal. If I want to make a lunch date and take a long lunch I can do that as well.

What I enjoy the most is the flexibility and though I still have things to do, flexibility in many ways equals freedom.