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Reasons to Start Your Own Business

A Checklist of Reasons to Start Your Own Business

By Donald W. Hudspeth©

Here is a list of reasons why I started my own business and why you may want to start your own small business:

1.  Employment:  It’s a job.¹ Owning your own business is a means of employment. And, if you don’t like your boss, then you have problems outside of the business. Starting a business as a means of employment might be a good move for veterans, retirees, new grads, and the unemployed or under-employed workers who need to create their own job.²

Getting off the couch and “into the world” can be a powerful motivator to succeed, particularly for those with an entrepreneurial bent.  Of course, owning your own business may be a job that does not pay any money, but if you have no job right now, at least it provides the possibility of money, all-important experience, and may create hope. (Often, hope is what keeps us going.)

2. Experience and resume builder: Self-employment can provide valuable experience in the school of “hard knocks.” Win or lose, you should learn something you can use.  And, owning a business can help fill a gap in employment on your resume if you decide to go back into the job market.  And, if you are successful, you may not want to go back. Note: Having owned a business is not a positive with some employers when you are searching for job. Whether it is or not may depend on whether the company values self-starters, or fears management and control issues arising from someone who has been “independent” and may chafe at towing the company line.

3. Schedule: You can set your own schedule.  You may be in “jail with the keys,” but at least it’s your jail and your keys.  For example, if you have kids, a spouse or other loved one, or have an odd or demanding schedule, being able to set your own hours can be the difference between a healthy relationship or not, and income or not.  As your own boss you can work on or off site when you want, and also work odd hours if you want.

4. Self-Determination and Self Actualization: Being in business gives you the right to be yourself and to choose who you want to be and who you want to deal with.  But, owning your own business can be a challenge. In fact, I often joke that a primary requirement of starting and succeeding in business is ignorance, because if you knew going in what you were getting yourself into, and the obstacles you would face, you might not start.  Still, a job well-done is fulfilling and that can make life worth living.  Emotional investment determines the value of things to us.  And, spiritually, being paid for serving others and actualizing the “God within you” can add another level of satisfaction and happiness.  And, one doesn’t really need to be religious to feel this way; psychologically it is a form of self-actualization.


¹Normally, this factor would not be number one on this list of reasons to start a business, but I have listed it as #1 for now due to the bad economy and terrible job market at the time of this article.
²It may also aid in immigration. Although my firm does not practice immigration law we occasionally represent clients who seek to immigrate to the U.S. and use their business ownership as a means to do so. There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that when Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule, its citizens fled to Vancouver Canada and that generally the policy was that if you had $750,000, then welcome to Canada!

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Attorney Donald W. Hudspeth has more than twenty years’ experience practicing corporate and business law. Before attending law school, Mr. Hudspeth held a stock brokers license at the age of 21 and owned his own business at the age of 23. He was a business law professor at Arizona State University, West Campus, and has conducted classes and seminars for a number of higher institutions and organizations. Mr. Hudspeth has published two books on law and is the founder of the radio programs Law on the Edge and Law Talk.

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About Attorney Mark S. Hamilton has experience handling all aspects of civil and commercial litigation in federal, state, and tribal courts at the trial and appellate levels. Practice Areas Business litigation Commercial litigation Education University Of Hawaii Wm. S. Richardson School Of Law, Juris Doctor - 2002 University Of Hawaii, Master Of Arts In Asian…

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