By:Bassem H.A

It can be hard to start your own business, especially with the fear hanging around you that you could lose everything if the business fails. You have to avoid the self-employment trap.

What is this self employment trap?

When you become your own boss you most likely will work harder for less money. You might do great and have a lot of work from different people but then what happens if your work starts to thin out on you?  Know you are living from job to job hoping that you can keep work.

A lot of people that have started their own business have done great at first from the way that they market their business and once they get really busy they just shut down the marketing and then the work that they had dries up on them and they are left with a business that is not doing any business.

If you are doing everything for your business by yourself such as your marketing, sales, keeping the books, and the operations of the company then you are taking time away from the making money aspect of the business. This could also cause you to get bored or burnt out on your business.

It is best if you think like a business and not as if you have a boss at home.  Stop thinking as if you are still getting checks signed by the president of your own company and start looking beyond earned income.

One of the big problems that business owners run into is that they trade their time for money.  So if you stop giving your time to your job then you don’t get any money to spend or pay bills with.  If you get sick or you want to take a vacation then the money is not there. You have to sacrifice your time for the money that you make.

It is not just your time being taken but the money you make as well.  When you operate as a sole proprietorship and you are self-employed, they take a healthy self-employment tax from you. There are ways of avoiding this however I am not an accountant or a CPA of any sorts so this is not any type of legal information. You have to learn to think like a business, also prior to quitting your job you should interview some tax advisors around your area and get educated with different business and tax strategies.

You need to build an income that has many different types of income streams.

It is wise to build a company that will work for you and not against you. My best information is how to build a business that will allow you to quit your job is to have a business that allows you to make money in more than one place. *You have many options to what you can do for your income portfolio, all you need is a good imagination, drop the fear and plan what you want to do.

Find other people to do the things that you don’t want to do. Make your day fun instead of like a boring work day. *Find different people such as private contractors or maybe even hire some employees to do some of the work for you.

How do you quit your job?

My information for you is to stop thinking that you have to do everything yourself to make your business work.  You need to have fun and set up a schedule for you to go by so you don’t have to work so hard trying to find time to do things for your business.  Find different places to make money and to put your money.

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