Have you ever started your own business?

I have started my own business before and it wasn't very successful at all. I ventured out on my own to clean homes but the pay wasn't good at all. The work load kept piling up and the pay stay the same. I never could get enough business lined up to help pay the bills so I stopped doing it. I got started after leaving my job, and now I just get my earnings online.

Hi Cassidy. I'm a self-employed poet & workshop facilitator (sole-trader). I decided to follow my own creative funk after finally accepting that the corporate world was not my idea of living my life's purpose. So far, it's been very challenging, but also very rewarding. Every year, it gets better - every year, I earn more from performing & running workshops - and less of a need to supplement my income with a temporary agency job. For the first 4 months of this year, I didn't have to temp and that was EXQUISITE! I was actually making a living as an artist and that can be very encouraging. Last year, I think I only temped for 2 months or so - the rest of the time was spent doing writing residencies in schools and running my creativity program. It's cyclical though - some times are busy and some times are VERY VERY quiet, such as this month - so I've had to go back to temping to make ends meet until more requests to run workshops & perform come in. It's a life I've accepted and is more reflective of my interests. Leaving the corporate world behind? No regrets whatsoever! :-) BrownEyed [www.ebele.co.uk]

I started a web design business 3 years a go. First year we did fairly well and the second year was very busy and I had to stop helping out as much. I took on few friends and they now manage it, I'm still the owner of it though. ~Joey P.s I have been thinking about letting it go though because I don't have time to check on it. I have other projects which hold my interests. :) Do you?

i don't start my own business,but i am planing to run my business with other people,i really want to earn more money to run my own business,but i have enough money and experience to run business by myself.