After I was beginning my one-person enterprise, my mother mates had been sceptical.
I ought to clarify. I stay in Bulgaria, which is a greater nation to stay in than most individuals assume. For instance, all mothers right here get 2 years of government-funded paid maternity depart. The primary yr, you’re paid 90% of your wage. Within the second yr, you get the minimal wage.
To start out my enterprise, I give up a well-paid job, thus giving up on my first well-paid yr of maternity depart. As a result of as a newly self-employed entrepreneur, I paid myself the minimal wage and coated all of the insurance coverage that in any other case can be coated by an employer.
This was 10 years in the past. Now, I’ve two kids, 3 and 5-year-old boys, and my mother mates maintain repeating “how good I’ve it” and the way fortunate I’m.
How I can select to work or not on any given day. How we are able to journey as a household. How I’ve no boss to piss me off.
It’s true; I’m fortunate. I’m fortunate that I began earlier than the youngsters. As a result of now, my enterprise is about up so it’s environment friendly and worthwhile. The start is the messiest half.
However say you’ve a child, and also you wish to begin now. How do you discover the time? How do you discover the power? How do you…