Once you've started your business though, you'll likely receive an immediate reality check. It doesn't work out quite way you thought it would.

To some degree, above comments are true in a home business environment – but not always and sometimes not even often. Let's look at each statement and see how reality fits in.

"Freedom to sleep in or go have fun when I decide to" If you have children, especially early risers or older children who have to get up and ready for school, you'll find that you can't sleep in. I have three school children and my day routinely starts at 6:00 - 6:30am. They get up early on weekends too, so I rarely sleep past 8 - 9am even on Saturdays and Sundays.

If you have clients, partners or prospects who are in a different time zone, you'll find yourself receiving phone calls at 9am – their time – even if their time is three hours ahead of yours. This can be avoided to some degree by placing prominent hours of operation and time zone notices on your sales materials, but not everyone will see those. The easiest way to avoid this is to simply turn off your office phone during personal hours. If you do though, make sure you remember to turn it back on when you start work each day and check your voice mail regularly.

As for going out and having fun whenever you decide to... well, maybe. When you're first starting a business, you'll often find yourself stressed out or worried about making a success of things. When you're worried about generating income especially, it becomes pretty difficult to walk away from office to just "go out and have fun".

"Freedom to do what I want, when I want" When you start a business, you say goodbye to having a boss right? Wrong. In any business, clients and customers take on role of boss. Yes, you have freedom to choose who you take on as a client, and you have freedom to tell your clients "No" when need be. In beginning however, you won't find yourself saying no or being picky very often.

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A Brief Look at Work at Home Businesses

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Work at home businesses are being promoted literally in their thousands. Are they any good? Which work at home business is right for you? Should you have one?

The Work at Home Business

It’s not everyone’s “cup of tea” but idea of working at home is appealing.

Because of this, explosion of home business related subjects, articles, opportunities and resources aren’t just on internet, but almost everywhere you look these days. Have a look for yourself, type in home business on Google you get nearly 49 million sites. Look in any popular magazine/newspaper classified section, see what I mean?

Most of us would much rather work at home, thought of easing yourself into day with a cup of tea or coffee as opposed to being forced to commute to office, shop or wherever at “Stupid ‘o’ Clock” is bound to appeal. Not having anyone else to answer to is also very appealing and most people would love to be able to tell their boss exactly what they think of them. Let’s face it, a lot of us would much rather not have to go to work at all.

There is more to it than that though, some people can’t to go out to work and have to work at home, it’s practical as well, in this day and age where we are all being taxed to death with everything getting more and more expensive, need to earn as much money as possible to look after family let alone to afford some creature comforts is all to real.

If you’re self employed, then you almost certainly run your business from home, you already know and appreciate advantages of working for yourself from home. But I’m talking about businesses that allow you to work at home as well.

Are they any Good?

Many work at home business opportunities are available from established companies who already undertake marketing campaigns and so have lots of flyers, software, text adverts, articles or even your own website to sell their products as an agent.