Hello, internet friends. It’s been a long week.
Running your own business is good in a whole lot of ways. You can pick and choose the projects you work on. You can (in theory!) set your hours. No bosses, no gods, no masters. Want to take a three hour lunch break and only work on passion projects? Go at it.
But there’s a downside. THERE’S ALWAYS A DOWNSIDE.
The buck stops at your desk and you’re the one responsible for all the work that would otherwise be done by other people at your company. Hate filing paperwork? LOLOL running a business is death by a thousand paper cuts. Not a fan of bookkeeping and processing expense reports? Don’t run a business. Not into losing 12 hours to learn how to use a new piece of software because noone’s available to outsource to? Don’t run a business.
The writing, the strategy, the brainstorming for clients—that’s the easy part. Finding new clients and making winning pitches? Easy too. Managing a million tiny moving parts where none of them …
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