Mastering Self Employment
Creating a Work at Home Career
There’s much more to mastering self employment than creating a homepage, finding a few freelance opportunities and setting up a PayPal account. Creating a work-at-home career takes dedication, effort…and, usually, a ton of patience.
What are the earmarks of being successfully self-employed? How can professionals know that they’ve reached a certain comfort zone in their work-at-home careers?
Everyone has their level of success and their own personal self-employment goals, but there are a few ways to tell when self-employment is a viable career and not just a very sought-after pursuit.
Mastering Self Employment
Getting started in self-employment is often an eye-opening experience. There are often a lot of late hours and working weekends, a ton of job searching, and sample-generating.
Time is spent answering ads, crafting resumes, and editing cover letters so that everything is so. When all that is finally finished, it’s time to get to work.
But finally, these beginning phases are over, and a certain comfort zone is reached. How can professionals know they are mastering self employment? Look for certain telltale signs:
Longstanding Clients – Long-term employment and contracts are good signs. Professionals who consistently complete work and receive regular payments through a single employer are doing something right.
This is as close to job security as any self-employed professional ever gets.
An Online Presence – Meaning an online presence consists of more than the professional’s own homepage. If an Internet search of your own name yields several results, mastering self employment can’t be too far behind.
Income – Once a true and steady flow of self-employed income has been achieved; it’s a pinnacle. The mission to create a work-at-home career has been achieved.
Creating a Work at Home Career
The journey from starting self employment and mastering this career can be a long learning experience. Creating a full-blown career out of work at home starts on a small scale – usually with successful freelancing.
Nothing can be achieved in self-employment until work is found. This means combing job boards for opportunities and reading forums to see what others are saying about the jobs out there.
Accept freelancing gigs and make the most of them because something temporary can always potentially grow into something a little more permanent.
There are a few steps between creating a work-at-home career and mastering self employment – but all of them very simply involves doing the work. Provide samples, do freebies, and create a great online portfolio to show off to employers.
Mastering self employment takes work, but in the end, it’s effort well spent.