I work in corporate professional services but am getting thoroughly fed up with the politics/stress, which only serves to make ridiculous profits for others and bumper bonuses for senior management. For a couple of years I've had a half-formed idea about starting a business in my spare time from home, but I'm thinking about it more seriously this month (and getting increasingly fed up of being expected to constantly do more with less).
I just don't know what I could do though!
- Ideally it needs to be doable around fulltime work at first, so flexible hours
- I don't mind putting in many hours around this business on the side, and working on it in the medium/long term (not looking for a quick buck or even profit at first, but must have potential to become profitable)
- I have lots of attention to detail and a high tolerance for practicalities like forming business plans, presenting P&L, spreadsheets, I'm also good with IT and my DH is a freelance website developer so website requirement not a barrier
- I'm fairly introverted, and I'm burnt out on service delivery, and would really love something which doesn't involve service to customers (so that rules out training and stuff) - I'd love to deal in something more "tangible"
- My home is a tiny 1 bed studio flat, so a lot of self employed stuff I've been reading on here not doable (childcare, dog walking, etc)