I've been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years. I've owned a trucking business, a wholesale/retail stores. I started a business from my home fifteen years ago. My reasons for being an entrepreneur were to have my freedom/have my independence from conventional working environments. Below I've listed some of the benefits of owning a home based business.

You're Tired of Your Boss.

It seems like everyone hates their boss. They try to pretend like they're your friend, but they're not fooling anyone, are they? You're forced to work to pointless deadlines and targets. Anytime you spot a better way of doing something you're Told that it's impractical or, worse, that it's great but the stupid way of doing things is already 'established' and 'policy'.

What you might not realize is that 'being your own boss' requires quite a lot of willpower. If there was no-one to make you get up in the morning and do any work, would you? Your home is supposed to be a place of rest and entertainment - and when it's full of the equipment and temptation to do anything but work, working there can be hard.

You Want to Spend More Time with Your Family.

You feel like all you do is go to work, come home, and then sit around, too tired to do anything fun with your family. If you have children, they seem to be growing up so fast, and you're missing it all - all because you have to go out and work.

You Don't Like Wasting Time and Money Commuting.

After all, once you get to the office, what is there anyway? Offices are dreary environments, and terrible to work in - traveling for hours there and back and spending a significant proportion of your wages to do it seems completely pointless (especially if you live in the middle of nowhere). If you could work from home, think of the time you'd save... and time is money, isn't it?

Keeping All the Money.

Everything you earn is yours to keep. It can be truly disheartening to work somewhere where cash is being handled, and realizing that the takings for the day add up to a hundred times more than you got paid. You know that someone's getting rich off your back, but it's not you - working from home makes you the fat cat at the top.

Independence.

You do what you want, when you want. No-one else can screw up your hard work, and you don't need to depend on anyone but yourself. Your days of being told what to do are over. And there's no dress code, either! Many people who work from home admit to sitting around in their pajamas all day,

A Healthier Lifestyle.

When you only have an hour's lunch break to do everything you need to do, you can end up running yourself into the ground and not eating properly. Working from home lets you do your errands when you want, and eat good food every day, You can also exercise more often because you will have more time.