Employed Versus Self-Employed & Christmas Launch

Being self-employed Christmas is the greatest season of the year. This is where we have most of the work and of course an increased turnover. You are watching your turnover, you’re watching your results, creations, videos, results, promotions, practically everything just to get it right for Christmas. Also intensifying views of products including those which sell all year round to really drive results. Careful adjustment to customer behaviour can make the right products at the right time sell fast. Christmas itself is huge.

If you are self-employed, you might not have an incentive, but you can double your income, and Christmas alone should be motivating enough. Diversity of products like seasonal products can enhance customer response and add to daily essentials making a happier choice. This can lead to diversity, and the necessary skills need to be developed. Interacting with businesses, working on your own, solving problems, networking, requires frequently a greater amount of flexibility than being employed. Flexibility of workload and personal commitments need to be prioritised. Both are vital and must be integrated at a time which suits. That is key being self-employed.

There is a time to grow your business and there is a time to reflect on it. Promotion is a path you entirely create yourself. At every step you have taken the decision, you persevered, you promoted yourself one step further. Your action speaks words. Essentially you created your own promotion. That is a major difference to being employed.

When being self-employed you practically create your own employment. You decide what you do, where your strengths are, how you work and eventually what you will earn. For some it's selling, for others it's services - digital - or non-digital. It is worth checking out how much you want to fulfil deadlines, being in contract with others or simply completely tailor your own workload and, hence having flexibility.

The major question you should ask yourself is "do I want to be in for a long-time or short time", as this will impact your final choice. Some opportunities really come alive on long-term strategies, let's say 4 or more years. Short-term commitments really supplement income and do not necessarily cover expansion. So brand awareness is the later and turnover is the prominent solution. Building teams also requires a solid foundation which requires time to build. All these are questions to raise when becoming self-employed. Are you in for a long ride or is it just filling a gap in your life.

Self-Employment Versus Employment

The other hurdle is job satisfaction. Deciding on how to run the office, how to respond and judge the business its associates, its teams can be very satisfying and empowering. Job satisfaction is to be developed and still a big factor for productivity and retainment of staff. High turnover of staff is costly and can lead to loss of profit. Self-employment can alleviate this phenomenon and is a real option if dissatisfaction is consuming your private life and working life. Frequently ideas and refinements do not get the right attention at work. Over time this results in resentment and poor outcomes. A back-up business can provide the necessary fulfilment structure. From the past experience I can share that people make as much part-time from their business as they earn full-time at work. This is due to develop or apply skills not in demand at work, the business is growing faster than your full-time income, the products or services rendered are in higher demand than your job ever allows. Job dis-satisfaction requires to draw a line and make new arrangements, either with the boss or your own. That should not be postponed as it carries serious consequences.

There are times we seem to have little manoeuvre or are even trapped in a team which is just following someone's working style. In a business you start and learn to work according to your best ability and culture faith some call it believe in you. I think it is faith because you need to have faith in you and faith for others. Like everywhere there are mistakes made but faith will be a forever attribute which encourages you and all others involved in your business. Someone with faith can carry the cart through thick and thin when self-believe is not enough to hold out every team and business. Faith in others is crucial.

The amount of new skills a business brings is unwavering. Many new jobs, businesses or careers are continuously open to you. Continuous learning, courses will bring new concepts and hence new careers on the way. That could be not the case being employed. A team leader does most likely not end up being the boss of a business site, offering his skills as CEO, well some careers are simply not achievable in employment contracts yet alone zero-hour contracts.

Every one's situation is different. There is a gap of specialists offering career guidance to those in jobs. There are job offerings, there a hustles, there other opportunities for those of specific skills, but actually counting down the years and making the necessary changes, redirecting careers is short in demand. Unless you already have a business very few coaches are able to sort your life around workwise. If you managed that successfully it is wise to offer your skills to others. It is not always about money but real deep thoughts a person has and how these persons can best apply themselves to something exciting.