The Self-Employment Survival Guide
eBook - ePub

The Self-Employment Survival Guide

Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss

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eBook - ePub

The Self-Employment Survival Guide

Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss

About this book

Anyone who opts for self-employment quickly learns that succeeding as your own boss is no walk in the park. While professional freedom has many, many joys, it also involves significant risks. If you're considering self-employment, or you're already self-employed, The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss alerts you to the challenges involved and provides proven strategies for surmounting these obstacles and succeeding. You'll also learn what you need to put in place before taking the leap to being your own boss to help assure your success.

Working for yourself offers personal freedoms and rewards, but the road can curve or travel uphill at times. Here, Jeanne Yocum shares eight key behaviors that impede success and provides proven solutions for the various obstacles that might cross your path, including unreasonable client demands, slow payers, unexpected client defections, daily schedules, health and financial planning, and the feelings of isolation that can sometimes accompany working on your own.

Unlike many books that provide only a rose-colored view of self-employment, this book gives a full, realistic view of what being your own boss is actually like. By learning about the ups and downs that come with being in charge of your own livelihood, you will be better able to handle the demands of self-employment and succeed on your own terms.

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Information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
2018
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781538108727
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Entrepreneurship

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Mission
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Now That You Work for Yourself
  6. Chapter 1: You’re the Boss Now
  7. Chapter 2: Make Working from Home Work
  8. Chapter 3: Don’t Sell Yourself Short
  9. Chapter 4: Managing Your Time
  10. Chapter 5: Keeping Up with New Skills
  11. Chapter 6: Trying to Be All Things to All People
  12. Chapter 7: Becoming Overconfident
  13. Chapter 8: Core Elements of Your Success
  14. Part II: Clients and Workloads
  15. Chapter 9: Having Too Many Eggs in One Client Basket
  16. Chapter 10: When Clients Are Unreasonable
  17. Chapter 11: Fluctuating Workloads
  18. Chapter 12: Clients Who Don’t Hold Up Their End of the Bargain
  19. Chapter 13: Handling Competing Client Crises
  20. Chapter 14: Sudden, Unexpected Client Defections
  21. Chapter 15: When Vendors Let You Down
  22. Chapter 16: Self-Employment Lessons I Learned from My Father
  23. Part III: Financial Expectations
  24. Chapter 17: Being Financially Self-Sufficient
  25. Chapter 18: Saving for Retirement
  26. Chapter 19: The Taxman Cometh
  27. Chapter 20: Deadbeat Clients
  28. Chapter 21: Surviving Cash Flow Ebbs
  29. Chapter 22: Six Things That Make Self-Employment Worthwhile
  30. Part IV: Potential Roadblocks to Success
  31. Chapter 23: The Double Whammy of Health Issues
  32. Chapter 24: Alliances Gone Wrong
  33. Chapter 25: Avoiding Burnout
  34. Chapter 26: Falling into the Doldrums
  35. Chapter 27: Getting Discouraged
  36. Chapter 28: Feeling All Alone
  37. Chapter 29: Secondhand Stress
  38. Chapter 30: Dealing with Insecurity
  39. Chapter 31: Bonus Chapter
  40. Chapter 32: So What’s Stopping You?
  41. Acknowledgments
  42. About the Author and Contributors

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