The hidden dark side of owning a business

[@thefatnav]

Leaving a comment in the downstairs... This is a great video mate, the struggle of running a business on your own is real, its nice to hear someone else talk about it, I've been working for myself since 2020 - it doesn't get any easier 😂 but it sounds like you're on the right track, setting boundaries, making time for family and friends, and if therapy works for you as well that's awesome 👍

[@Johns_busy]

@@thefatnav thanks man, I really appreciate you taking the time to write this. And you're spot on, it doesn't get easier, but the problems you face change over time 😂 And yeah, I'm getting there finding the balance, but it'll never be easy 😅

[@shahal-makin8116]

Just subscribed - absolutely fantastic video highlighting the concerns of starting your own business. I've been wfh since covid and the best advice I have for working is having your own little office space at home (assuming you have the capacity to do so). I also sometimes work from my parents place by having a monitor there and a basic setup just to keep things a bit more interesting.

[@Johns_busy]

Thank you! I really appreciate your support. Working from home sounds like a luxury but in reality can be quite the challenge. I do just like you, sometimes change it up to avoid staring at the same 4 walls all day 😂

[@MicahSimpson]

So true! All of it! I really like what you said about time & flexibility being an aspect of pay when you own your own business. I never heard that before! But It’s true, I didn’t make as much as a “day job,” but I had lots of time & flexibility. Appreciate you! 👊🏻

[@Johns_busy]

@@MicahSimpson thank you ever so much 🙌🏻

[@mojjammil]

I'm working as a software engineer full-time but have just decided to start doing tech consultancy on the side thanks to an ex-employer reaching out with their newly founded company needs tech infrastructure setup and website. Got me thinking maybe I can turn this into a business as a consultant. Of course selling and getting clients will be the biggest challenge. I'm not ready to go full-time like you recommended one shouldn't right away. And you earned a sub since it would be nice to have a friend for me who's in business...

[@Johns_busy]

@@mojjammil ah dude you've got this! As long as you set expectations low for the first year or so, and don't quit work to go full time, you'll smash it 🤩🙌🏻

[@mojjammil]

@@Johns_busy thanks. I don't have the guts to go full-time until I figure out how to find international clients since I live in Finland as an expat and don't know Finnish well enough to sell to the locals. I don't even know if tech consultancy is a sustainable business at all. Maybe at least getting a kick-start in own business would encourage me to work on a SaaS project I have been planning to develop for a while anyway as well while awaiting new clients.

[@ATR-mt5rz]

482 subscriber here 🎉 this video is perfect timing!

[@Johns_busy]

@@ATR-mt5rz thank you! 🤩

[@oonurceelik]

Thanks for sharing your advices 👏🏼

[@dom5673]

The hustle culture of today does make it sound so easy, so fast, so perfect. It's not true. Even my boss that's been in business for 40+ years thinks its easy now because he's seen a instagram post, or heard a podcast. It's always hard and there are always ups and downs. Save for a raining day and don't be so hard on yourself. Do the opposite and go crazy with stress and worry. Love the new vid graphics etc too!

[@Johns_busy]

@@dom5673 you're absolutely right! It makes it sound effortless, but it's far from it. And thank you! Trialed a new style of video and it seems to have gone down well :)

[@dom5673]

@@Johns_busy And you've hit 500 subs... congrats!!

[@FPLIQ]

Fully get a lot of these points. Before I began teaching at the high school I’m at now I did more freelance teaching where I’d be the only foreigner (in Taiwan). Was even lonelier given you can’t really chat to the other people around and the only others are kids. Still looking at how to make my location a positive business thing tbh. Think there’s a business opportunity being a British person in Taiwan.

[@Johns_busy]

@@FPLIQ I'm glad these points could resonate with someone else 🙏🏼 very few people speak of the harder parts, and they really do make it tricky. Keep going, you've got this!