Just what would you tell a 16 year-old YOU if you could?

The question was prompted by a snippet of a TV programme I saw recently.

Now, as you may know, we don’t watch much TV here, due, mainly, to it being rubbish but it did raise an interesting question.

Personally, I would tell my 16 year-old self that cookery isn’t women’s work at all and to take advantage of the training offered to me whilst serving in the British Forces! Crickey, I could have been a Jamie Oliver or a Gordon Ramsey…!

Seriously, I would tell him to work for himself and not working for someone else.

Robert Kiyosaki has much to say about being an employee, suggesting that it’s just more risky than being a business owner or an investor.

I can’t think of a skill, trade, or profession that cannot be undertaken without being an employee. The benefits of one over the other are there for all to see.

Amongst some there is the feeling that employment with the security of a ‘regular’ wage coming in is preferable to the riskier world of self-employment. But is that so, especially in the economic climate we are now experiencing?

The idea that a boss, working miles away, in another city, country or continent, can dispense with your services, after what might be half a lifetime of serving seems not so secure, after all.

OK, so discipline will be needed, as you will not have anyone to tell you when you have to attend, how much you will receive in wages, how much time-off you will be entitled too, etc.

You will, also, be told how much will be taken from you in taxes and for social security. Promises will be made with regards to the benefits you will receive but will in all probability not be honoured despite you being forced to keep to you your part of the bargain.

That’s not to say, that as a self-employed business person you will have much more input but, maybe a little more and that must be a good thing, surely. Not only that, if one does have to live on ones own resources, and talent, as a person of business does, one never knows where it might lead.

In closing, I would say to anyone considering the Internet as a way of earning money to give it a go, give it a year! What have you got to loose?

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