Taking Time off as a Boss

[Frimley111R]

When you say the grass in never greener, what does that mean? Working for yourself wasn't as good as you hoped?

 

[Midwest]

When you say the grass in never greener, what does that mean? Working for yourself wasn't as good as you hoped?

Working for oneself is better it terms of when and how long the hours you work. AL you have to factor into your hourly rate. And the salary, for me was peaks and troughs.

Now I have to work M-F and have weekends off. My leave is paid for, but I can only have 4 weeks paid leave a year (plus BH’s), which sounds a lot, but isn’ when you take the odd day off here and there. But now I know what each monthly salary I’ll be getting.

 

[Frimley111R]

Working for oneself is better it terms of when and how long the hours you work. AL you have to factor into your hourly rate. And the salary, for me was peaks and troughs.

Now I have to work M-F and have weekends off. My leave is paid for, but I can only have 4 weeks paid leave a year (plus BH’s), which sounds a lot, but isn’ when you take the odd day off here and there. But now I know what each monthly salary I’ll be getting.

Yep, I used to buy and sell cars and while the flexible life was great, every time everyone else was off (weekends and evenings) I'd be dealing with customers. I'd go out on a Friday, have a beer and get a call to see a car at 9am the next morning which sort of dampened the fun. Going back to 9-5 was a revelation! I just left at 5pm and didn't have a care in the world!

That said, I've been running my company for 3 years now! But I do enjoy it and so working longer hours etc and building it up isn't an effort, it's a pleasure (well most of the time).

We're off on hols in Jan and I'll have to wind down the marketing but keep an eye on emails but at least on hols there's always plenty of down time to do this.