Business Myth #8
I had a number of reasons for wanting to work from home, the biggest being fibromyalgia, the second being depression. I haven’t had a good nights sleep in 12 years. I got sick when I was 12, I missed out on a lot of my teenage years. I’ve been sick for as long as I was healthy before. As such, I’ve had problems relating to "normal" people. I was a waitress & constantly wanted to tell people ‘It’s breakfast, it’s not a huge deal, we’ll just all do it again tomorrow’. Ok, sometimes I am cranky, but show me a person who is in constant pain & isn’t. I put on a good show, but secretly I would come home from college or school & just resent humanity for making me go outside & wear shoes.
So I thought that starting my own business, I would work with people a lot less. I think a lot of people look at their annoying coworker’s & bosses & think, it would be nice to get away from all of this. They want to get away from the rat race, competition & the back biting. They see working from home as a way of doing this. This hasn’t turned out to be the case, I seem to be working with people a lot more now, than I ever. Some of them are great & I’m so glad I have met them, others. Boy was I wrong. I’m still trying to get together some ideas on how I can better handle people in my business so any suggestions would be appreciated.