By Kirsten Hendrix

Many dream of being self employed. You can choose your own hours, you are your own boss, and you are not limited as such when you plan holidays around a work place calendar. Some see it as this golden lifestyle, but is it what it seems?

No Regular Income…..

In the early days of setting up and business in particular, the hours can be endless, late nights, early mornings, and weekends. To make ends meet at the beginning can be incredibly stressful, with new equipment or products to pay for, and that desperate stage where you are trying to establish yourself and find regular income. This is regular income is probably the top negativity for being self employed, you can never quite be sure if invoices will be paid on time, or whether you will have a steady trade from month to month. » Read more: Career Transition: Self Employment – Getting Past the Negatives