I was made redundant from a financial services corporation when I was aged twenty-two.  Due to the fact that I was quite young, the fact that I did not have any children and due to the fact that I did not have a mortgage or any other debts, I was not actually that depressed about the situation.

I decided to think positively about the situation. In reality I did not even like the job that I was in, I found it rather boring.  It has always been my goal to run my own business and this was a great opportunity for me to do this.  Being made redundant turned out to be a blessing in disguise.  I would probably have left the company within a few months in any case, but this way they were actually paying me a redundancy package to leave!

I decided to use this windfall to start my own home based business. I was going to run one-to-one stuttering therapy courses to help people to achieve fluency.  I am a person who has managed to successfully overcome a stutter and I therefore felt that I had something to offer.

I have found that being able to work at home has many benefits.  These include being your own boss and therefore not having to answer to other people.  Choosing your own hours, choosing the amount of hours you work and the amount of holidays that you have.  As an example instead of working nine to five and then having to spend a further two hours traveling through the rush hour traffic is no longer an issue.  This travel time is basically time wasted.  I am a person who prefers to work late at night and at times early in the morning when the world is seemingly at its quietest.

What I love the most about being able to work at home is the ability to attend all of the important days/events in my childrens lives.  For example, attending their school sports days, the Christmas play, parents evenings, the visits to the dentists.  People who are “employed” have to miss a number of these events due to a lack of holiday time or a lack of flexibility at their work.

I now have partnerships in other business ventures including one offering a DVD replication service and one offering web promotion advice.

Setting up my own home based business has been the best thing that I have ever done and I would recommend other people to do the same.

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To Your Success,

SherryD
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