This was an interesting week with a lot to study and ponder. To me, measuring the cost equates to how much does your job/career mean to you? Are you willing to put people you love on the back burner to make a buck? Are you willing to devote every waking minute to building and maintaining your business? In my mind, I see a yard stick. On that yard stick is a mark signifying the time I will spend on work that week, or month, or year. Over the years, I have worked for employers and according to their schedules. Many times I have worked over. As a medical transcriptionist, I could not just stop in the middle of a report when the clock said it was time to punch out. As an executive director, I cannot just lock up and leave knowing I still have items to catalog, research to do, a letter of gratitude to write.
I believe that is why entrepreneurship is so appealing, especially to those of us who have worked as employees most of our lives. To have the freedom to set your own hours, work as much or as little as you want in a day, choose your vacation length.
And then, I see that yardstick in my mind's eye, reminding me that "this much" work needs to be done so that I can pay my bills, take that vacation, or eat...depending on how business is going.
Where is the mark going to land on my yardstick as I transition into becoming an entrepreneur? Will I push myself like I have in the past or will I finally achieve the freedom to inch the mark back a bit? I suppose it comes down to the measure of my life...an equalizing of what mattered most to me.
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