From the course: Planning Your Career and Your Life

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How to get started

How to get started

From the course: Planning Your Career and Your Life

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How to get started

- How can you get started in the world of self-employment? Well, I think the first thing is to talk to people who are self-employed. Find out how they did it, get advice from them. What are the things that you're going to need? You'll need an accountant, et cetera. So talk to people who know about it, who've been there and done it. It's the first thing to do for sure. And then test the water. What idea have you got and how are you going to sell that? I suppose the safest classic way to do it will be to overlap it with your job, do it as a side hustle. So have an idea, try selling it. And if the selling works and you get demand for it, then you could leave your job. So you could even set up a website and everything, and just broadcast out the fact that you're available and see what comes in. And you could even start doing it a little bit in your spare time, perhaps in evenings or weekends or one day a week before you…

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