Even though self employment describes an ever less popular approach to creating income, it still represents a very important part of the marketplace of ideas, products and services. Important to whom? Well, nearly everyone. Let’s take a look at why that might be true.

Those who operate their own enterprise or otherwise work for themselves provide us with:

• reminders that individuals can succeed, even against corporate giants
• marketplace alternatives for consumers
• small business resources for getting things done
• competition that improves what’s offered in the marketplace
• lower burden on unemployment programs
• avenues for investment of individual wealth into the economy
• innovation that larger organizations might stifle
• a business culture that promotes individual success
• flexibility and responsiveness unparalleled by large corporations
• encouragement and hope for those of us in corporate life
• choices other than the traditional 9 to 5 job
• opportunities to be employed when large corporations collapse under their own weight
• proof positive that we don’t have to work for others

It takes a special person to venture out into the world of self employment, but if it wasn’t for them, we’d lose all of the many benefits of this approach to doing business in the marketplace.

Many believe that those who work for themselves are mavericks, but the opposite is true. Large companies with hourly employees are an innovation of the 20th century. The idea of a “work force” is something that applies to larger organizations. It was born during the growth of large industrial employers and large office parks. These are the mavericks – attracting the masses away from their self directed employment to work with many others under common management.

If you’ve been part of the never ending cycle of layoffs in the automotive industry, you might not exactly refer to this type of mass employment as an innovation, but the managers who keep their jobs, while handing out “pink slips,” would prefer that you see it that way.

Similar Posts:

• Recession Proof Jobs – What do They Look Like?
• Seismic Shift: Workforce Changing From Full-time to ‘Free Agent’ Employment
• Recruitment Services: what opportunities will a job seeker have?
• It’s Cool to Make Your Employees Work on Christmas
• Women, Black Workers Hard Hit by Attacks on Public Employees