воскресенье, 10 апреля 2016 г.

TO RETIRE FROM WORK FOR A HOBBY: Expectations And Reality

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Certainly many masters aspire to finally go away from unloved work and to begin to work on itself, being occupied by favorite hobbies.
Maybe, my experience and conclusions will interest someone. The aim of this article - is simply to tell about what happened and I hope that this information will be useful to someone :)

Small prehistory 
Before the layoff I have been occupied by scrapbooking for 2 years already and in recent year it occupied all everyday evenings, and often even the whole weekends. For me to retire was desirable so much, therefore no effort were spared to make a salary in part of the hobby attain a certain comfort number.
However, treachery was covered in that: besides money, it was very terrible to lose ground under feet: the “generally accepted" employment as an office work, the huge experience in a profession, qualification, stability.

I will not paint all my heartfelt suffering, I will simply say that I retired impulsively in total, on the eve of my birthday (in June), with ideas "Woe to this“ and an excellent mood. Appeared, that it is sometimes possible simply to just do, and nothing terrible will happen. But, indeed, to this moment ill-starred number already arranged me overall.
I had a clear plan a long ago, as, what and in what amounts I want to do, therefore I was overfilled by happiness that at last it is possible to make this plan come true.
3,5 monthpassed, and it is possible already to bring intermediate results.


Expectations, dreams and severe reality?
1. Expectations: now I have, as every "normal" man, one work, but not two! I will get tiredless, at last get enough sleep, I will be able to meet with friends more often and spend time with family.
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Reality: in my case all these expectations justified oneself. "According to plan" there was the clear setting to work by the schedule - 8-9 hours a day and never to work at the weekend.
I mean, I left all these rising on an alarm clock and I leave "on a ring" in 8 p.m. Indeed, now I "come" to work not at 10, and at 11 a.m. :)
Conclusion: correct and comfort personally to you planning of the time is an incredibly important thing. And to live on-schedule really much more comfortable, you always control terms, know the list of the businesses on a day, give out orders in time and have a normal rest.
Hobby - now isyour only and in an ideal favorite work, therefore an attitude toward it is better to have as much as to work.

2. Expectations: at last it is possible to forget about wicked bosses!
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Reality
: really, now nobody yells on you. Nobody tells off for delays, superfluous smoke breaks, work done in wrong time, asking for leave etc. Now there is only you with the list of tasks for a day. No pressure outside: if you want - you work, if you want –go to watch films .But now your profit depends only on you, there comes more and more orders, terms limit from every quarter, and at the end of month you wait a message about the receipt of money on a card by inertiathat will no longer come.
Conclusion:for success of all undertaking it is needed to become a wicked boss to itself. You have to tell off mentally to itself for idleness, for "delays" on work from the prolonged morning tea-drinking, for telephone conversations in business hours.
And it "cures", again, by the self-discipline and planning of time. You was not late - fine fellow!

3. Expectations: it is possible correctly to feed at last, do delicious salads for a dinner, to do exercises, and even run at mornings!
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Reality: right here my plan did malfunction :) the Wicked boss constantly pesters and yells: "And did you do it? And this? And when will you do this? What one more hour for dinner?!” You become lake that wagged out manager of project  in an office that rushes about everything as mad, gets everybody by questions and goes for dinner at 5 p.m.
It is a fail of my self-discipline, and I constantly think that it is needed to take oneself in hands and correct a situation.
Conclusion:it is more comfortable to put to itself alarm clocks for dinner, exercises and other useful or pleasant things without which you consider your life wrong. It can be valuable "task" in the daily list of businesses, that it is simpler to do, than yet to swear at itself  that you ate again sandwiches with cheese and not even nearly becamethin :)

4. Expectations: terrible! What if the amount of orders diminishes suddenly?What if it is not enough of them to fill working hours?
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Reality: here everyone will have theirreality, as there are millionsof different factors, but if by the moment of discharge nothing was badalready, then there cannot be worse.
Now you have not only more time foryour own business but also you accept it being not tired and wagged out after an office and by a cheerful cucumber in a morning. Many positive emotions appear, inspiration flies, now there is time (each eveningand weekends) to read at last that pile of books about marketing, that you bought two months ago.
There are pluses followed:
- possibility to dedicate much more time to untwisting of grounds of sales of your works;
- to understand how to do it more correctly (due to books);
- to have the opportunity and boldness to plan a development of the business farther;
- to do more ready works, to support the "shop-window" of your shop (that, in turn, influences well on sales);
- quicker to perform the orders;
- to visit different trainings, courses (if it interesting to you, I prefer books), exhibitions, fairs.
Totally these things give the greater stream of sales, there is more work to do, a job performance at the end of month becomes more pleasant.
Conclusion: work always brings a salary. If you really do everything actively and fully, then there will be a result!

5. Expectations: I will become an incredibly happy human doing favourite work for itself at home!
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Reality:an euphoria made off approximately after 1,5 months. That was before considered to be the darling and favorite house, now grows into a boring commonness that is desirable to get out from thatmore often. A husband supported me, and nowwe ride to go for a walk on parksalmost every evening, I meet with friends more often - this in itself is good and was included to the list of aims, but it is done now partly on purpose to go away from four walls.
Sometimes I get through some strange ideas, that I’m unemployed, sitting at home (despite the fact that I work 8-9 hours a day).
So, it turned out the same as initially with weekends- are those bonuses about that you dreamed constantly, not so it easily to accept.
And nowmore ideas are about a "living" shop, about the workshop outside home, the soul stretches back to a chart "went on work - came home". It is a pity that neither a workshop nor shop, on my calculations, have no financial expediency :)
Conclusion: as it was written in one quite a good book, it is necessary to present itself up against the dream. Not to dream, but exactly in all paints to present it. People after that quite often change aims, because here you dreamed about a yacht, and you already feel seek from a deck and enrage a burning sun :)
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In spite of described in the last point, I am very glad that I engage in now what it was desirable. There are never the less far more pluses! Now, getting tired at work, I know clearly, to whom and why itis needed. It is always possible to find an occasion for being proud of yourself :)
I hope that my experience of the "freewheeling" will help to decide someone on such a cardinal step, as discharge, if it is actual what you  want with all your soul!

Havefan!

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