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ould get a job.However, I would never get a job in the classical sense of the word. I.e. I would never again be sucked into the “emerald city” promises that corporations dangle in front of their employees. I have no interest in working my way up the corporate ladder, swapping my time to make the leaders of organisations wealthy.So what type of job would I get?<ol><li>The simplest and easiest job I could find to cover my basic needs</li><li>I would find one that starts very early in the morning and finishes between mid-day and mid-afternoon.</li><li>It must require minimum to no connection to the workplace outside of work — i.e. no slack/whatsapp/Facebook groups</li></ol>The reason is that being freelance for as long as I have been has me addicted to being self-employed! I love the freedom it gives me to go in the direction I want to go, to work on projects I want to work on, and to be able to clock in and out wherever and whenever I please.Therefore, if I did have to go back to a job to pay my bills, I would spend the free time I had — i.e. the afternoons - working on bringing my current business back…. or upskilling myself in a brand new area that I can start a business in….. or setting up something brand new that I didn’t have the time to create before because of the time invested in my business.So, it would need to be a simple and easy job — not something I am dedicating any brain cells to outside of work, something that leaves me daylight hours to dedicate to my own business and not a job where I am begin bothered outside of work.I believe that;<blockquote id="1a9a">Having to take a job to pay

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your way is not failure. You have only failed if your business mindset fails and you get sucked back into the corporate ladder world</blockquote>Once you have started and run any type of business, even remotely successfully, you have become an entrepreneur and started developing entrepreneurial skills.Perhaps the industry you are in took a specific hit, it wasn’t right for you, or any other number of reasons why your business might fail.But those entrepreneurial skills that you have developed are transferable to any industry — you already have business skills so all you need now is some new or current knowledge and you can immediately get started on your new successful business venture!I’m not sure of the exact statistic but I read that the majority of very successful entrepreneurs in this world have lost at least one business.But they didn’t give up! They may have had to get a simple job in the meantime to get by but all the while they were planning and working on their next business — a business that fully utilised the skill set they had developed in their previous business!I hope this provides you with a slightly different perspective if you are running your own business.This article is a little shorter and sweeter than my usuals but it is a message that I felt was important to share and I truly hope it helps put some of your minds more at ease!Thanks so much for taking the time to read this. If you found it useful please leave me a clap or a comment and follow me to be notified of my future articles.see you soon,Christian</article></body>

What Would I do if my Business Failed?

A Surprising Revelation

This week I was asked the question;

“what would you do if your business failed?”

This is a very good question and I think something that is constantly on all freelancer's minds, including mine.

Being freelance is freeing in many respects. However, if you don’t work you don’t earn and you are solely responsible for finding work — there is no company structure or sales team to find the work for you.

That leaves many freelancers, including myself, always a little (or a lot) anxious about where next month's money might be coming from.

Of course, many freelancers manage to build up a good batch of returning business clients who order services consecutively each month, however, it takes quite a lot of time and a lot of hard work to get to a place where you need not worry at all about the next 1–4 months.

I am getting to this stage gradually but am not totally there yet.

So, what would I do if my freelance business failed?

I’d get a job!

Yes, you read that right! However, let me qualify that…

Firstly let me tell you what I mean by a job. I have bills to pay and 2 kids to feed. I would never put my business over their safety and security. So, yes, “if push came to shove” and my freelance business dried up to the point where I could no longer make it pay, I would get a job.

However, I would never get a job in the classical sense of the word. I.e. I would never again be sucked into the “emerald city” promises that corporations dangle in front of their employees. I have no interest in working my way up the corporate ladder, swapping my time to make the leaders of organisations wealthy.

So what type of job would I get?

The simplest and easiest job I could find to cover my basic needs
I would find one that starts very early in the morning and finishes between mid-day and mid-afternoon.
It must require minimum to no connection to the workplace outside of work — i.e. no slack/whatsapp/Facebook groups

The reason is that being freelance for as long as I have been has me addicted to being self-employed! I love the freedom it gives me to go in the direction I want to go, to work on projects I want to work on, and to be able to clock in and out wherever and whenever I please.

Therefore, if I did have to go back to a job to pay my bills, I would spend the free time I had — i.e. the afternoons - working on bringing my current business back…. or upskilling myself in a brand new area that I can start a business in….. or setting up something brand new that I didn’t have the time to create before because of the time invested in my business.

So, it would need to be a simple and easy job — not something I am dedicating any brain cells to outside of work, something that leaves me daylight hours to dedicate to my own business and not a job where I am begin bothered outside of work.

I believe that;

Having to take a job to pay your way is not failure. You have only failed if your business mindset fails and you get sucked back into the corporate ladder world

Once you have started and run any type of business, even remotely successfully, you have become an entrepreneur and started developing entrepreneurial skills.

Perhaps the industry you are in took a specific hit, it wasn’t right for you, or any other number of reasons why your business might fail.

But those entrepreneurial skills that you have developed are transferable to any industry — you already have business skills so all you need now is some new or current knowledge and you can immediately get started on your new successful business venture!

I’m not sure of the exact statistic but I read that the majority of very successful entrepreneurs in this world have lost at least one business.

But they didn’t give up! They may have had to get a simple job in the meantime to get by but all the while they were planning and working on their next business — a business that fully utilised the skill set they had developed in their previous business!

I hope this provides you with a slightly different perspective if you are running your own business.

This article is a little shorter and sweeter than my usuals but it is a message that I felt was important to share and I truly hope it helps put some of your minds more at ease!

Thanks so much for taking the time to read this. If you found it useful please leave me a clap or a comment and follow me to be notified of my future articles.

see you soon,

Christian