I’ve done sole proprietorship, and worked for companies both small and large. My next step is probably solo again, because I have confidence in my abilities and I trust my future best to my own hands. And if I need that stocking job to take up the slack, I’ll gladly take it. It’ll free my mind to imagine – and plan – what’s coming up next.

But the world is changing and no one’s “job” is rally secure anymore. My friends from my teaching days, some w/PhD.s, are looking for an income sources right now.

It does bother us that we can’t afford health care, but you know what? Weighing everything, I am amazed and grateful for all the ways we have become self-reliant.

When our business was a baby, Bob had a special chair. We called it the “figuring out chair.” He would go there to sit when a crisis hit (not enough clients, business loan payment due…usually it had to do w/money). But dammit, there was always a solution.

I wouldn’t trade our entrepreneurial life for anything in the world. I wrote a blog post recently, “Shining Star for You to See,” on the awesomeness of small biz owners. Your well-written post just confirms all my beliefs. Good job!

Ive gotta tell ya… I’d much rather be in my own self made leaky boat than in somebody else’s crappy old hamster wheel any old day!

Cheers, Mate!
Love, V