It takes a lot of guts to be your own boss. With tough economic times, and the well-stated fact that most businesses fail rather than succeed anyway, you have to be a real daredevil to take the plunge to go into business for yourself—a daredevil with a thirst for challenge, and the inner drive to make it on your own. Most can’t do it, but there are those that can and succeed at that.
The obstacles of an entrepreneur are well known: doing your own taxes, drumming up business, and holding onto long-term clients, to name a few. But, one particular circumstance business pros learn that is both tough and uncontrollable is the matter of downtime. That period when you simply can’t get more work when you want it, or have few clients purchasing products/services for your business, is tough to stomach. For the most part, it’s also outside your control. Every business pro, from real estate agents to education agencies, understands this, and that for better or for worse, downtime is just a cyclical part of work.