The employment numbers prove it: 79,000 less people employed and an increase of 101,000 in self-employment over the last year in the UK. This takes the total number in self-employment to 4.07 million.
This is strong evidence for what I suspect is the future of work: a world with fewer permanent employed roles and with a greater proportion of 'economically active' individuals running their own businesses.
Inspired - or is it forced - to make my own work after two redundancies within three and a half years, one of the drivers for me was to regain dominion over my own future and prevent my fate from being 'somebody else's business decision'.
Going it on your own and starting your own business is not for everyone. I don't believe this is a simple function of intellect or skill set. It is complex and I suspect that some of us are pre-disposed or conditioned through long experience to be 'employment institutionalized' - that is we cannot see ourselves as anything other than employed by somebody else's company.
However if you are determined and want to escape the routine of...
- Moaning about the job you have
- Moaning about the job you don't have
...working for yourself, being your own boss and taking your destiny into your own hands is perhaps the most personally and vocationally rewarding thing you will ever do.
Don't get mad about being or not being in the employ of an organization. Get on with it yourself. You may surprise yourself at what you can achieve.
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