[coollikeme]

My wife and I both work part time for other people and still manage to get by OK, in one of the most expensive places to live (northern New Jersey), because we have our own business that we run full time. The business was slow going at first, but each month we have more and more customers. It is a lot of work, but well worth the time. We would much rather work hard for ourselves, growing our business, than for someone else. We really enjoy having the freedom to do things our way and we only answer to ourselves. My wife had a job, at one time, where they even made the employees ask permission to go to the rest room. Can you believe that?? Even though we only work part time for someone else, now, we still feel like their puppets. Hopefully, our business will be going really strong soon and we will both be able to quit our part time jobs. That way we can make ourselves rich, not our employers. Hopefully, in the long run, we are doing the right thing.