Originally Posted by
Marco
Yup - I know exactly what you mean; it centres around a pride in having achieved something useful. However, some folk just aren't 'wired up' that way, especially if you've been brought up in an under-achieving environment, by people content with mundane mediocrity, or less. They're never amount to anything worthwhile.
The other nice feelings, when you're self-employed, is knowing that the profit you make is your own (not that of the company you work for), and best of all for me, is being in full CONTROL of my day, so I can choose to work late or finish early, or even take a day off altogether!
Having no-one to answer to, in that respect, and thus the TIME and FREEDOM to do what you want, when you want, with no-one BOSSING or CONTROLLING you, at work (or at home, for that matter), is worth its weight in gold. In that respect, I'd never return to working for anyone else, not even if the promised salary was 100 times what I'm earning now!!
Some things in life are worth much more than money....
Marco.