Be my own boss

“Just because you work 50 hours at an office job doesn’t mean you can do it at home. Working for yourself is very different when you work at home, mostly alone on most days. There’s no gathering around the craft beer tap or La Croix fridge to chat about the weekend or the weather. There’s me, my laptop, and my projects. I learned very quickly that my weekly max is 20-30 hours a week. [...] By the third day of being my own boss, I realized the only humans I had seen were my husband and the kids, and maybe the UPS guy. Now, I make it a point to work from somewhere else once or twice a week. Changing up the scenery with a new cafe keeps things fresh.”

“On this day last year, I handed in my corporate laptop and badge and trod barefoot into my new office. My home office—just steps behind my kitchen. I had a handful of amazing clients I’d been working with for a few months, so I knew exactly what I needed to do on that very first Monday of my new entrepreneurial life. Except, I knew, and I didn’t. I had no idea what was going to happen the following week or the next month. There were so many questions swirling around in my head. Uncertainty, creativity, and inspiration were my new modus operandi. This was a definite change of pace from rush, commute, meeting, do some work, more meetings, rush home, make dinner, get the kids to bed, and start working again.”