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The Cure For Self-Employment Burn-out

© Lea Moore

In the course of a day, you spend 30 minutes driving to the office and 30 more going home. You are at the office an average of 8-10 hour every weekday and maybe more on the weekends. You take home the work you don't have time for at the office. After the kids have been fed and you have spent some quality time with your husband, you go to your home office to deal with the task there isn't time for at work. An hour or two later, the dishes are still sitting in the sink and you're exhausted. But you hate to get up to a mess, so you make sure the kitchen is clean before you go to bed.

In the meantime, your husband has fallen asleep and you are grateful, because you are just too tired for his attention on this night. It's somtime after midnight and the alarm will be sounding again in just a few hours.

What would you give to have just one good night's sleep when you don't lay there for another hour wondering how you are going to make something happen with the marketing situation or how to deal with that employee who you know is going to show up late again tomorrow?

You hate to complain, because your business is thriving, there is more work than you can do. You've had to hire a receptionist/clerk because no one else has time to do the filing and it helps a lot when someone else answers the phone while you are in a sales meeting or consulting with a client. But, as the boss, when you go home at night (and when you wake up in the morning) not only are you responsible for yourself, you are responsible for the livelihood of your employees.

They depend on you to be there every day. They don't have the answers to all the questions. And they don't have the authority to make upper-level decisions.

So, when you wake up one morning and just don't feel like going to work, you can't call in sick.

After a couple of years, you desperately need a vacation and there is no one to take over and run the place while you leave for a week to go to the mountains, or to visit your mother.

At least that is how you view the situation.

Are you sure the place will fall apart just because you are gone for a few days, or you need to take the day off to get some maintenance done on your car?

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