Re-entry: "Should I start my own business?"
Katrin Wilkens (45) studied rhetoric and worked as a trainer in further education. Since 2000 she writes as a freelance journalist and others. for mirror, time, FA and Nido. What she is really good at: portraying important and less important personalities, that they howl with happiness. Or with anger. Combine. To put things in a nutshell. To look into people. Discover special features. With her agency "i.do" (which is Japanese and means "change", "journey"), the mother of three advises women on their return - and promises: "In the end, you have one answer: the tailor-made job."
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ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com reader Cora asks, "I'm a therapist and have three children, should I start my own business?"
"I'm 39, Psychological Psychotherapist and I've just had my third child, the big ones are 10 and 6. I'm not sure if I want a fourth child in two or three years when the little one goes to the daycare.
I do not want to go back to my old job in the clinic, but I'm afraid to start my own business. What do you advise me? "
Best regards,
Cora
Dear Cora,
First of all, congratulations on the third child! So, and if you still have some reserves in your job (phew, respect!), Then think about a compromise, just as you make it tasty for your kids every day: first you practice vocabulary, then you can daddle on the computer.
That means: First you return to your secure permanent position at the clinic, and from there you look around: Can I also work part-time? And can I take a side job in psychotherapy practices when someone gets sick? So you start very slowly in the self-employment and can make valuable contacts.
And can you also imagine other places of work, such as the consumer center, specialist journalism, the association of statutory health insurance physicians, a rehab clinic or a pastoral telephone? Or do you have ambitions to write a book? Set up a psychotherapy service number? Or simply to develop a little more, e.g. in working with refugees, adolescents (sex education) or seniors (the suicide among the elderly? a big taboo subject)?
But the big question is: Why does not you like self-employment? Because it is too lonely for you? Because you are afraid of business administration? Because the investments are too high for you?
Start-up coaches help in self-employment, community practices provide a team atmosphere, and start-up grants can mitigate the first financial hurdle.
In any case: The permanent position you are supposed to start from will save you a hysterical one, but it has to succeed immediately. Take a permanent job for what it can be: a wonderful hammock.
Rocking in it increases creativity in thinking.
Katrin Wilkens, i.do.
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