Ladies and Gentlemen, we bring you the classic fight of all ages: In this corner, the flexible, yet sometimes grueling: SELF EMPLOYMENT! (Insert wild and maniacal applause here) In the other corner, the highly focused: WORK AT HOME! (More applause and cheering)
At first glance, our two competitors may seem very similar, but in reality, they have a few different missions.
SELF EMPLOYMENT pertains to when one creates their own income. This can be either in home, or at a location. You can be self-employed owning a McFranchise, or self-employed doing sales, consulting, or stuff like that. You certainly can be self-employed and work from home. This has been my path. Although, I currently live at work…in an art gallery…actually, its quite cool, but I digress…
WORK AT HOME is when you get to work at home. Very rarely, however, does a work from home job actually allow you to, well, work AT home. Generally, it’s a work FROM home job, where you’ll need to go out into the real world and deal with real people. The whole concept here is that you work out of your home, not an office.
It’s important to know the difference between the two, because you need to recognize your own working style. Some people are more comfortable working out of an office, being able to literally go home for the day. Other people prefer being able to roll out of bed in the morning, and start getting stuff done in their pajamas.
This is your lesson for the week: figure out your working style. Granted, if you’re new to this whole non-corporate lifestyle thing, you’ll probably want to wait awhile before investing in an office space, (unless you like the McFranchise idea) and get to learn about working out of a room in your home.
Most importantly when working at your residence is to have a place that is separate from the rest of your home…not because you won’t work enough, trust me, more often than not, you’ll be working TOO much!
