Wanted: Self-Employment

[mogwaai]

Wonder how many of us trudge to work everyday - thinking about having a go at self-employment. You have a good job, the security of having a paycheck at the end of the month probably is enough for most but I can't be the only one feeling you need just a little more in life while you have a chance to change it - before it's really too late. Maybe after retirement you try something to keep your mind from going to jelly.
There are a lot of people with serious skills on the forums, looking for work. They don't try anything themselves? Anyone can buy a ready-made website with Esquire VRN, franchise or whatnot. Pretty piss simple and lazy. I'm talking a genuine developed idea or product.Maybe you have a good idea - found a gap in the market, something that could work but there are so many "other" daunting factors to consider. Most tech people are probably absolutely useless at sales, don't give toss about accounts, bank balance won't buy you a power supply, have no corporate people skills, afraid I guess... Just too many overheads and it's a serious jump in the river to see if you can float! I'm totally guessing but small startup's begin with a group of "friends" with an idea and each one has their own skill-set to make it work. For those trying it on their own, well I can imagine a really near impossible task. I looked - I cannot find any postings for start-up's, new ideas, proposals - guess we way too afraid of failure and lack of trust. Has anyone tried anything?

 

[Gozzy]

Yeah, I have done something similar but I approaced with Caution, I told my wife to quit her job so that we can start something of our own, we started a small event's company that she's running with, and I can tell you now it takes a while for the ball to get rolling, especially with a big chunk of our income gone, but it's now a year later and only now she's starting to match her old salary that she use to get, but hey, we are still patient because each month is better than the month before, ontop of this we started an online shop for her partyware etc with room to expand to more categories.

My dad owns 2 sucessful businesses and I guess that he was my role model in this situation, when you see my mom, you see my dad, and that's what we want, we want to be able to work/live/play together all the time.

My dad also started a sucessful business for my brother that he is running with (my brother is a bit of a failure to launch) and I guess this also motivated me, to be honest, we have had no help from the family in starting our own, but then last week my Dad told me that he is in the works to start something for me too (maybe he is feeling bad lol) but that's not stopping us, but when it happens then even better.

Obviously once our business is stable and what not for a year or 2, I will quit my job and focus full time on the business, but hey you gotta start somewhere

Obviously it's not as easy as it sounds, but if I can give one piece of advice, always have a back up plan, in my scenario, my full time job is my back up plan, and I made sure that I was able to cover all expenses before I made her quit her job, yea it was tough in the beginning but hey, sometimes you have to take a step back in order to take 2 steps forward.