On the Olympics and Self Employment: be a better you
Friday, February 12th, 2010Tonight is the eve of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and regardless of the myriad opinions on snow melt, commercialism, and politically incorrect kangaroo flags, I have to appreciate one thing the Olympics still strives for: to encourage us to be better people. This couldn’t be more obvious in both the competing athletes and the community at large, and I doubt that even the most curmudgeonly miser could ignore the happy faces in what some would call a desperate year of unemployment and bleak futures.
Looking back at reasons why I started to work on my own (I still struggle with calling myself ‘a business’…), it’s not enough for me to repeat what many Internet freelancers say: ‘you call the shots’, ‘work anywhere’, or my personal favorite, ‘flexible work hours’, are like siren calls to the forlorn company bound, but you learn pretty fast that these aren’t reasons enough to keep you afloat when times get tough. (more…)