Dreams of Returning to Work
I’ve dreamed of some good times at work lately, which suggests that I miss working and would enjoy it if I returned to it. Part of me would indeed enjoy doing it again; especially where they respect me, and do not constantly challenge me. I miss some of the people too. However, I wish not to go back to work, unless I do so in my own business.
Not that a proprietorship would be easy. There would indeed be many challenges. But I do not fear healthy challenges, and I’ve risen to many through my twenty plus years of work so far. The advantage of running my own business would be that I could avoid the excessive and unfair challenges which I saw so much of in my corporate life. In my own operation on the other hand, I’d be able to set my own hours and take on only the jobs that I really wanted to do. There would be few mandates from over-baring bosses and I’d avoid making myself slave to any long-term contracts.
Only my customers would be my bosses, and there would be lots of those. So I would not have to depend on any one person liking me for my success and growth in the business to continue. As long as enough of them like what I’m doing to keep the revenue stream flowing, then I need not compromise my principles to please those who do not.
So far, directly working with customers has been on-the-whole, rewarding; not perfect, but much better than answering to a single boss in the corporate world. Now I did experience stress while DJing at JL’s wedding last November. For the most part though, she was happy with my show and the discount price I gave her for it.
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Tom Hesley