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Thursday, March 15, 2012

A Rule of Self-Employment

Isn't this the way things always work for the self-employed?

My husband, Ed, has been waiting for a couple of weeks for an okay from the architect and designers before starting work on custom cabinetry for a mansion in the Hamptons. Today he was starting to get a little worried about the length of the wait and didn't feel like doing any of the home-repair projects he's been doing around here to keep busy. But I asked him to begin work on a desk for my office, so not long after he took measurements for the desk and started working on plans, the okay for that custom cabinetry arrived by e-mail.

The lesson from this story? When you get busy, more work always arrives. When you sit on your hands, no work arrives.






2 comments:

ErinBrenner said...

So true. The moral, then, is prepare to work on your own projects and the paying work will come! ;-)

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf said...

Definitely! Another good move is to confidently work on marketing your services or take a course to polish your skills, rather than doing nothing but panicking. That always makes work show up.

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