If you own your own business

[grea]

What do you do? Do you enjoy it? Was your initial investment high?

It's always been my goal to be self employed, but from several things I've heard recently I have been somewhat put off.

Do you have an idea for a business?

First thing is to identify what you want to do. Look at your skills, interests and abilities.
I have my own business, I enjoy it, I've done it for over 10 years now and my initial investment was £50. It's now part time because that suits me but I could upscale again to full time if I wanted (do so approaching Xmas anyway)

@GreySantaRabbit what is your business?

I used to, well, with my (now ex) partner. He had the technical knowledge & ability & I ran it. I also ran other small businesses for people with similar skills who had no book keeping or business skills.

this was overseas.

im now back in the UK, facing redundancy & I'd love to start up something else. But I don't know what. Been thinking about it for a long time, but still no idea. I couldn't really do what I did there as there's so many differences in the law & taxes etc and I'm struggling with the menopause, so find it all too much to get my head around.

Freelance accounting. Cost me pennies to set up.

If you have a skill, capitalise on that. Oh, and becoming a 'consultant' and investing in a 'starter pack' of branded products to sell on - well that won't mean you are running your own business, it makes you a customer of theirs.