start up my own business

doing what I do at work anyway,but doing it freelance. I have two potential freelance jobs in the pipeline, I need to make a decision this week if I will take them on.

So I have an idea and I started reading a book about starting a business so hopefully by this time next year I will maybe have something in the works.

I really hope so, I can’t stand this 9-5 office work anymore.

It is hard work and a bit scarey at first but if you have the heart and desire go for it – it will work out!

Ever since I left shcool I have worked in the role of social care. I started off and qualified as a youth worker, worked in hostels, with homeless, childrens homes, elderly.

I know work in a housing association as a support worker. I work with people who have generic issues such as drug alcohol, mental health. This client group is sometimes very difficult to work with at the best of times and motivating them was once a challenge for me.

I have always worked more than one job at a time in the early years and i have done many other jobs part time waiting tables, cleaning, working nights in residential homes, exhibitions etc.

I seem to have always had my hand in most pies and i am always selling something or coming up with a way of making ‘short change’(money), arranging get togethers and social gatherings. I have a good social network and people often call me asking ‘Where to get this’ where can I get that?’. I am always giving advise to people about how they can change there own lives.

Well perhaps I should practice what I preach, ah guys???

I curently am very unhappy at work and I no longer want to listen to people who have issues which can easily be rectified if they got off their backsides! Listening to doom and gloom and negativity all day has taken its toll and I have virtually had enough!

In the past year I have taken countless days off ‘sick’ as I had a personal crisis to deal with. Something really important, but I received very little empathy from my employers and had to play ‘sick’ in order to get the time off. That crisis has now come to an end and after having 12 weeks off work, I just cant face going back ( there is more to the story).I am a bright positive person and now I dread having to working in dirty, negative environemtns trying to convince others just to open their front doors and let me in. I have had enough.

Positive things have happened since I have been away and i have assessed all my skills and I have decided that I should work for myself. I have in the past few weeks managed to write down all my ideas and create a small business plan. I will start a Advertising site with a difference (well not too different).
I am in the process of developing the site which should be completed in the next 3-4 weeks. I hope to go on a mass marketing campaign to show case my business. I am very positive about things and optimistic that things will work out.

Not sure about the job though as I need to pay the mortgage and make ends meet…….........I need to go back if only at least until the business takes off.!! I have to be realistic, grit my teeth and get on with it!

I just need some encouragement as the driving force that was once in my life is now gone.( yes….long story). So I will welcome all feedback, which may assist me in my mission to make change!So what this space…….......!

Owning your own business is incredibly tough and not for the faint of heart. When I think of what the past two years of my life have been like because of it, I don’t think it is worth it.