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

Not sure where I said I would be having 2 months off a year and not working weekends.  At the moment I get 15 weekends off a year, none of which can be taken in December or January.  My weekend is Wed and Thu each week.  My kids are 10, 8 and 6 and you know what, I want to be able to go and watch them play sport on the weekends as well as actually being involved in their little lives before they become big lives that don't include Mum and Dad.

I have wanted to have a crack at running my own business or a family business for a long time now.  The opportunity has never arisen whereas now there are 2 or 3 ventures I can start up and run concurrently, still doing something I enjoy on my own terms and on both sides of the border.

I know there is a great deal involved, running our own super fund which includes holiday house letting has shown me that as well as the need for a good accountant.