Not long ago, it would have been regarded as foolhardy to have thought about self-employment when there were so many large companies looking for employees. Any major economy in the West had its General Motors, BPs and other, major household names employing tens of thousands world-wide. However, since the Millennium, we have seen these major companies shedding huge numbers of jobs and selling off subsidiaries. Many well-known names have disappeared from the streets and are now history - Arthur Andersen, one of the Big Five international firms of accountants, or Lehmann Brothers, for example.
What lessons can we draw from this? We still need to pay our bills. We still need gas for our cars and food to feed our families, don't we? However, the sea-change which is becoming daily more apparent is that the impetus is now changing direction. Whereas the tide was going towards the creation of huge enterprises in the nineteenth century and, indeed, in the twentieth, there is a difference now. Technology has intervened and has meant that a one-man (or one-woman) band can now have as large a profile on the internet as a larger company run by several people.
Just think about it for a moment. You could still look for a job and have the security of a weekly, or monthly income. If so, then you need expert advice to beat the opposition to the job. That is a sensible course of action to take. Equally, however, you could use that same income to build up a little business of your own. The way that technology is now set up means that you could have a website promoting your company (let's assume that it will sell daffodil bulbs, for the sake of argument) which you grow in your large garden at home. Your website has a business address which you pay $50 a month for and to which your bills and checks get sent. Your phone number is answered by a company five hundred miles away in your company's name and messages are texted to you to call back during your lunch break, or after work. Your invoices are printed off, very professionally on your computer in the spare bedroom at home. Oh, and most of your orders come by email into that business account your pal, who does IT, designed for you for $100.
In the above scenario, you have the best of both worlds. You have the relative security of paid employment, backed up with the value-added of your own little niche market business at home, churning away a few hundred dollars a month.
What lessons can we draw from this? We still need to pay our bills. We still need gas for our cars and food to feed our families, don't we? However, the sea-change which is becoming daily more apparent is that the impetus is now changing direction. Whereas the tide was going towards the creation of huge enterprises in the nineteenth century and, indeed, in the twentieth, there is a difference now. Technology has intervened and has meant that a one-man (or one-woman) band can now have as large a profile on the internet as a larger company run by several people.
Just think about it for a moment. You could still look for a job and have the security of a weekly, or monthly income. If so, then you need expert advice to beat the opposition to the job. That is a sensible course of action to take. Equally, however, you could use that same income to build up a little business of your own. The way that technology is now set up means that you could have a website promoting your company (let's assume that it will sell daffodil bulbs, for the sake of argument) which you grow in your large garden at home. Your website has a business address which you pay $50 a month for and to which your bills and checks get sent. Your phone number is answered by a company five hundred miles away in your company's name and messages are texted to you to call back during your lunch break, or after work. Your invoices are printed off, very professionally on your computer in the spare bedroom at home. Oh, and most of your orders come by email into that business account your pal, who does IT, designed for you for $100.
In the above scenario, you have the best of both worlds. You have the relative security of paid employment, backed up with the value-added of your own little niche market business at home, churning away a few hundred dollars a month.
Now, you can check out both of those scenarios by going to: http://www.4-a-job.com to see how you can secure a paid job through training that execs would die for, as well as exploring and downloading information on how to set up your own website, information you can sell on the internet and much, much more.
Drew Gray is the author of a number of websites and ebooks online. Most of his publications relate to businesses which are internet-related and of which he has several years of experience.
Drew Gray is the author of a number of websites and ebooks online. Most of his publications relate to businesses which are internet-related and of which he has several years of experience.
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