I'm a Slave to My OWN Business!

Next to the get rich quick schemes you find "WORK FROM HOME". Most are scams but there is a long list of ways you can work from home and make a decent living. I chose to use my God given talent and opened an Etsy shop to sell handmade items. It's the ideal job! Who wouldn't want to work from home, make their own schedule, and be in charge of their own success!? Well it ain't all it's cracked up to be.

I'm a mother of 3, my husband works full time and I own my own business selling art and digital prints on Etsy. We're a busy family and finding time to run a business is demanding. It took me about 3 years to establish my business and a lot of it was luck and right timing. Now don't get me wrong, I put all my extra time into my business and worked hard, damn hard. It took a lot of time away from my family and my relationship with my husband strained. Now 6 years later I still feel like a slave...

Over the years I found a balance between work and family but everyday is still a struggle. Some days I love my job. I feel super productive and I'm on it like white on rice. Other days I feel pure dread having to walk into my office and actually work. It drives me crazy!! Here I am, lucky to be able to work from home and I so selfishly resent it. Having a business means no days off, constantly working, and keeping your business up to date and relevant in our fluid world. I have an account on every social media network and half of them I have no time for. I opened my Steemit account a few months back and posted a few pictures but it was all so redundant. Today I started to think to myself how my business must look to others. Some anonymous artist behind a wall of pictures and reviews. I'm a real person, a wife, a mother, a homemaker, and artist trying to keep it together everyday. I'm Christine and this is my life, a slave to my own business.