I feel like I'm getting nowhere while everyone is moving forward?

[mrreliable3599]

Yes, if you can't stomach "co-workers, gossip, and the pressure of having the please the boss 24/7," you don't have much choice but to be self-employed.

Do they make money? Well, Bill Gates is self-employed.

In reality, most people who choose to go into business for themselves risk lots of money and bust their butts in a desperate attempt to make a go of it. They hire people. Most people starting out in business pay their employees more than they make.

And they get trashed by the mainstream media if they happen to have a good year and make 100 grand or so ($250,000 after taxes).

If you're willing to risk it all, work twice as much as anyone else, sacrifice, and pay everyone else's way while you're being smeared as one of the hated "rich" people when you're still trying to make payroll, you might be cut out to be self-employed. Otherwise, just work for one of those evil rich people, become one of the 50% of people in the country who sponge off the other half, and resent everyone with more money than you.

Self-employment. It's not for the weak.