So, you think you can run your own business and have weekends off and take two months of the year off?
Good luck with that
Did you want to be your own boss before the issue of redundancy came up?
You will notice that many AP members are their own bosses, most of them started running their business part-time while working for somebody else.
You may be the best in your field, but running a business takes more skills than that
Give it ago, the worst that can happen is that you fail and have to go back to working for somebody else