Many handmaders dream about leaving a job and make a living work. How to obtain it - is not a simple question, and this business is difficult. But possible :)
Now I want to tell about problems and complications that accompany "life of dream". Certainly, at every point there is a circulating, positive side. But there are two of them - plus and minus, I will tell about minuses, pluses are already known :)
1. First of all - considerable part of surrounding people will think that you went crazy. Before this you were engaged in normal business, you had a cute hobby, now your roof went down and you are wasting time. Well, if so the simply acquainted think, opinion of that does not influence on anything. Badly, if so the near think. Their disapproval or even aggression can spoil life so much. Eventually, who is pleasant to quarrel with near people? But here is only to decide for itself, that is more important: to live in peace with others or with itself.
2. Maybe, now you will feel shy to talk, what you are engage in. Before you were an operator, or accountant, or sales man these are clear businesses. It was easy and pleasant to name the profession. Now what? What you engage in - flowerets modelling and sewing. So it is better at once to think of some beautiful showing off name.
3. Rest-time now is this time in that you do not make money. And a salary anymore is not present and will not be. From the one side, there is a risk to be too stuck in domestic and family businesses (you are now at home!) and there will be almost no earnings. From the other - personally I, for example, at some instant understood that I work absolutely all the time, that not busy with a child (and he is already grown enough and walks in a garden) and I do not cook. And in a weekend either. And even while with a child, I feel sense of guilt :at this time I would work and earn. Too badly, though profitable. It was a volitional decision to limit work hours to appoint weekends
4. You will no longer have a hobby. Because a former hobby – is a job now. You will have to look anything new! Mainly - not to make this a job too :)
6. Competitors all the time will come to you on heels. Did you think of unusual decorations? It is perfect, but over the months, crowd of imitators will appear for you, and sales can fall down. All the time it is needed to think of something yet, to study, do new, to walk ahead. It is "needed to hurry very quickly, for simply to remain at place".
7. You will have to bear in a mind and in a planner many things.
Bloodcurdlingly many. To order business cards, do orders, buy materials, to reply to letters of customers, send away tracking numbers, do a long-planned interesting thing, watch the dates of fairs and give requests, and ten and hundreds of small and large businesses. Itcanfrighten.
8. And another fear - now all depends only on you. At work you are holded by very different people, including foolish, and lackadaisical, and so on. They often are not moved forward on a quarry stair, but a salary is paid. And you will not be able now to itself to allow to be stupid, give vent to the bad mood, to do it here better, there worse. To build the business very unsimply. Pranging is much easier. And this fear, this new responsibility - can strongly spoil life.
9. Your reputation, and, earnings, will depend on quite casual people. Your clients. Practically all of them are adequate good people, and if you do the work well, and reputation your will be good. But there are also brawlers, dishonest people, and simply loonies. Black stripe, a few such "customers" in succession - and the heap of bad reviews that can frighten off good clients is ready. And it means that you will begin to earn less money.
10. You may need very much discipline. Clients will not wait for weeks, while you will be visited by a muse. Therefore - daily labour, even if laziness, it is not desirable or no mood. (And herein difference of work from a hobby. We occupy a hobby under a mood, and working is necessary always. You will be able not to conceive a hatred the business. Will not it transform in the same boring job?) Will you be able to work without an overseer after a shoulder?
11. Now work almost for certain can not be "simply aborted from a head" after completion. It is leaving an office is possible to go out and to forget about everything till the next morning or till Monday. Let the owner have a headache, and you did the work and can with a clean conscience enjoy a hobby. Now you are the owner!
12. Career advancement will be to organize to itself independently. Nobody will promote a salary and will not appoint you as a main manager or chief of department. Do you want anymore? It will be to do independently, from the ground up. Quite from the ground up. Not simplyto become a master that does decorations and sells them over the internet, but the hostess of shop in the reality? It will be needed to find an apartment, buy in an equipment and additional materials, to design everything by itself, find and hire salespeople. Everything by itself.
13. There is a risk to sit at home and to keep indoors by weeks. Why to go out? After foods it is possible to go down simultaneously with the dispatch of parcels and in concert to go to buy materials, time to spend is pitiful. And it is bad for the health and mood. And to be ill is now impossible to you - nobody will pay for a hospital. You will have to take care of itself, if it is not desirable to remain without earnings.
14. Andthe last, on my opinion, most frightful. You appear up against a failure. Before you could say: ouch, this frigging job! Guzzles all the time, if it were not for it, I would have time for everything! Now there is no more job. There are you and your business. Will you be able to have time for everything, and if will not turn out? And will you be able to live with this fear? It is a heavy load - a closeness of own vulnerability, unsuccessful, not luck.
In the end it is possible to say out totals, that if you decided nevertheless dare! In fact you will never know till not try!
Good luck all to beginning masters!
Good luck all to beginning masters!
by Estrina Kaas
Buy and Sell handmade goods on Estrina.com
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