As far as I’m concerned, the ideal source of income would be something with no set hours, that I could leave and come back to as I please. In other words, if I decide that I’d rather play video games for a month instead of earning money, it won’t prevent me from earning money the month after that.
You can easily do that with a business, if you set it up correctly, and you are willing to spend money to make money. More to the point, though, you’d need to actually want to have a business, a bit more badly than you appear to want a job. ;-)
I’ve always heard that having a successful business is usually an awful lot of work, even more than being an employee. At least, that’s what my father says, and he’s almost always right.
It’s a bit of a cliche for children of a certain age to say that their parents don’t understand them when, in fact, they understand them perfectly well, but my father has admitted to me that he doesn’t understand my feelings and behavior, so I’m not going to him for advice on how to live my life.
Perhaps it is possible that your parent(s) “doesn’t understand you” but still internally expects to, and so does worse than someone who doesn’t know you or knows you from recent experience.
You can easily do that with a business, if you set it up correctly, and you are willing to spend money to make money. More to the point, though, you’d need to actually want to have a business, a bit more badly than you appear to want a job. ;-)
I’ve always heard that having a successful business is usually an awful lot of work, even more than being an employee. At least, that’s what my father says, and he’s almost always right.
Setting one up is. Having one is not necessarily the case.
So why aren’t you asking his advice. ;-)
I said almost, didn’t I?
It’s a bit of a cliche for children of a certain age to say that their parents don’t understand them when, in fact, they understand them perfectly well, but my father has admitted to me that he doesn’t understand my feelings and behavior, so I’m not going to him for advice on how to live my life.
And you expect complete strangers to do better? I’m not sure that’s rational.
Conversely, if you’ve adequately constrained the problem for us, surely you can adequately constrain it for him?
That’s… a pretty good point, actually.
At least there’s more of you, though; you might suggest something I haven’t thought about before.
Perhaps it is possible that your parent(s) “doesn’t understand you” but still internally expects to, and so does worse than someone who doesn’t know you or knows you from recent experience.