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EP 71: 10 Things No One Told You About Being Your Own Boss

2022/10/26
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JoAnn Bolt:成为老板后,工作生活与大学时期的理想化想象大相径庭,实际工作中面临着诸多挑战,例如:没有固定的晋升路径、带薪假期或其他庆祝目标;容易导致体重增加,因为在家办公更容易接触食物,且久坐不动缺乏运动;容易过度工作,缺乏工作与生活的平衡,甚至会因为工作而影响睡眠;容易感到孤独,需要主动与朋友家人保持联系,避免过度沉浸在工作中;穿着打扮会变得随意,甚至会减少对个人形象的关注;需要自行缴纳税款,并建立良好的财务管理系统,避免因税务问题造成经济损失;会让你认识到自己的优势和劣势,并根据自身情况选择是否外包某些工作;容易分心,注意力不集中,导致工作效率低下;自主创业的预算管理与传统工作模式有很大不同,需要更精细地规划支出,即使是税务抵扣项目也需要实际支付;需要自我约束和责任感,如果没有自我管理能力,建议寻求商业教练的帮助。尽管如此,自主创业过程充满挑战,但最终的回报和成就感是值得的,拥有财务自由和时间自由,能够按照自己的方式经营企业。

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The speaker reflects on her idealistic view of the working world, which included exciting work trips and happy hours, and how her experience in a corporate job was different. She then discusses her transition to being her own boss, inspired by the lifestyle of Carrie from 'Sex and the City'.

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I came out of college with high expectations of what the working world would look like.  I'll admit it...I somewhat thought it would be all sparkly and filled with exciting work trips, amazing high heeled shoes and outfits to wear, and happy hours filled with co-workers and cosmopolitans.  Until my manager at the consulting firm sincerely got upset with me over taking a day off work to attend a funeral for someone who wasn't an immediate family member.  

I remember thinking "you've got to be kidding me here.  I have personal days off but I'm not really expected to take them?

When I did finally quit that role, I remember being on the plane back to Atlanta from Denver Colorado (where my last consultant project was based) dreaming of being my own boss.  In my head the working world was now more like Carrie's world from the original "Sex in the City" HBO series.  Days filled with a few hours of work, even better shopping sprees because the clothes didn't need to be 'corporate professional' and my shoes no longer needed to be the closed toed grandma shoes that the corporate world required at the time. 

I honestly went into Real Estate beacuse3 I had no clue what else to do, and knew that I did need to help pay the mortgage on the house that Jeff (my husband) and I had recently purchased.  So the transition into entrepreneur world wasn't a hard one for me.   I naturally have lots of drive and ambition.  

I do admit though that there were a few things I wish I had known in advance about being your own boss.  Since there's no onboarding manual for going into business for yourself, I'll let you consider this the girlfriends guide to starting a business.  The real deal of it you could say. In today's episode I'm giving you the 10 things no one told ME about being my own boss.  I want you to be prepared sunshine!  Tune in and then text me at 678-736-8055 with which one resonated the most with you

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