by Pam Neely
If you are like many people you have probably considered both work at home businesses and jobs, and while a business is the better choice there are good and bad points to both. Since a work at home, business is the best option below you will find some of the top reasons why. However in order to stay balanced we will also list the two best reasons to stay with a job as well.

At this moment in time, you may not be ready to jump into a work at home business and that is fine. But have you ever considered that by doing a work at home job you are robbing yourself?

Two Top Reasons to Start a Work at Home Business

1. Businesses of any kind have one thing in common; the potential to build equity. On the flip side, all jobs have something in common as well; in order to be paid you have to trade your precious time for a paycheck. You must keep working hour by hour if you want to keep the money coming. However, with a work at home business you can earn a steady income once it is profitable and you will have the choice to keep it or sell it.

Often times people start a business with this express goal in mind, their only plan is to start the business, make it profitable and then sell it say in five years or so. Sometimes people just find themselves bored or wanting to do something different, either way they have a business to sell! Think about the difference, you can give two weeks’ notice and walk away with your final paycheck or sell your business and net a cool $100,000, which would you prefer?

2) Business owners can hire help. Work at home job holders have to do it all themselves.
As a business owner you can do whatever you like - so long as the results keep you in business. Your business will actually do better the less you work IN it, and the more you work ON it. So your “job” as the boss is to create systems for getting things done, complete with idiot-proof instructions that practically train people themselves. As soon as each system is created and running smoothly, the boss (you!) finds someone to follow the directions. Then that new person does the job you used to do, and you get to either take a break or continue building the company and its profits.

Work at Home Jobs two Top Reasons to Get

1) Risk.
This is the biggie. Most businesses fail. There are things you can do to radically improve your chances of success (like writing a detailed, real-world business plan and interviewing 3-5 business owners in the same industry you want to go into), but no plan is perfect. By sticking with a work at home job, you can count on that paycheck and leave how the company is going to fund that paycheck to someone else’s headache.

2. Hard Work- Despite the rumors around the office about the boss taking a nap in her big corner office while you run yourself ragged the truth is far from it. When you own your own business, you will work harder and longer than anyone as a rule. Employees punch out and go home to relax, while the boss has to stay until all the days business is complete.

This is the brutal side of #2 above, you can delegate all you like but there is always more work to be done, and most of the time it all needed to be done yesterday! If you will have problems shifting gears on the fly or filling many roles in business you must have the perfect business plan and a hefty bankroll to cover it, or a work at home job may be best. You can clearly see that there are many more benefits to a work at home business but if it means giving yourself a stroke to do it you might want to stay with a work at home job.

Pam Neely writes about how to work at home successfully.

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