A New Era of Work at Home Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs

For many people, caught up in the global recession, having to work at home has become a necessity rather than a choice. For some, the transition from working in an office to working at home is a fairly simple matter. A case of exchange seats, as it were. For others, it is somewhat more difficult.

Jobs like programming, writing, proofreading and many more can be very easily accomplished from home, while others, like construction, motor mechanic, driving trucks and dozens more, can not.

Involve Re-Training

The task of choosing what type of job to do from home can be a daunting one. One of the first difficulties would be to decide what type of work to do. This could involve re-training in a completely different field, which may be totally foreign to anything a person has done before. Attention should be given to the fact that during training, there will be little or no income being earned, so choosing a new career should not be entered into lightly.

So how does a person find out what type of work they can do from the comfort of their own home? Searching the World Wide Web will turn up thousands of sites all claiming to make anyone a fortune if they adopt their particular scheme. Many of these sites are scams, who will disappear after taking money to supply the so called Secrets of Success. There are a few who have genuine work from home enterprises and great care should be taken to research and isolate these few good ones from the vast majority of unscrupulous operators.

Checking a Company

There are a few precautions that may be followed in checking whether a company is above board or not. Legitimate companies have no problems in supplying street addresses for their premises, telephone and fax numbers, or an E-mail address and the name of a contact person. If these are not given, don’t even bother with the company.

Once a person has decided what type of work they are going to do from home, the next stage would be to find out if there are any regulations about running a business from a residential dwelling. Checks should be made at the local municipality. If the business involves writing, proofreading or any other business that will not disrupt neighbourhood activities, there should not be too much of a problem. However, the neighbours may not take kindly to a string of vehicles pulling up at a particular address at all hours of the day and night to pick up or deliver parcels.

Once a Home Business

Once a home business has become established and money is coming in, provision needs to be made for paying taxes. This, of course, will be governed by local regulations and a certain percentage of any money earned will have to be put aside to pay these taxes.

Working at home has become a major industry in the developed world, and even in some third world countries. The rise of the Internet has seen phenomenal growth in this industry. It has opened up huge markets worth billions of dollars to so many people willing to take the steps necessary to find out how to take advantage of the opportunities offered.

Entrepreneurs Go for Gut

Follow your Gut ? Be an Entrepreneur!

Nurturing your intuition allows you to connect with intelligence far greater than what’s available through your conscious mind. Disregarding it is the equivalent of cutting off your blood supply i.e. cutting off life’s messages in the context of truly reaching your potential in life.


In 1996 with a poor academic record in English, no background in writing and told I would not succeed by two award winning journalists ( not best selling authors), I decided to honour my intuition and commit to writing a Best Selling Book. Similar to many potential entrepreneurs it felt right to follow my gut but it didn’t make much sense and I didn’t have the know how. A few years later, I had sold approximately 15,000 copies.

Recently while reflecting on my time as a marketing consultant, I realised that very few projects whose market feasibility I had to check got the green light. I always found enough reasons why the business shouldn’t start. If I had applied the same level of analysis to the feasibility of the book, I wouldn’t have pursued this avenue either.

Context of Entrepreneurship

In the context of entrepreneurship, too often people disregard their gut in favour of the practical, left brained approach more often than not to the detriment of their project.

I now know that there isn’t a dream in the world that you and I couldn’t conjure up enough reasons why we shouldn’t proceed with it. Knowledge always gives you enough reasons not to act which is why I advise at all times to honour your gut in the knowledge that you will always end up in a place you describe and recognize as better than your starting point.

Oftentimes people don’t choose to go for gut because quite simply it doesn’t come with a pension plan. In the context of you reaching your potential and achieving meaning and significance, pain/discomfort will be part of the package. However this is nothing compared to the pleasure you will have at living and working in your own dream business.

Enjoy the trip

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift? Einstein

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