Self-employment brings extra freedoms as well as extra kinds of work you have to do because you are your own boss, so you have to do the work of boss too.
For some work, it is a very natural approach. There are whole industries that rely on self-employed workers, like film production and construction.
The Self-Employed industry, people who work to help people be self-employed, also exists and when you are learning how to manage a business of your own it is possible to get support from many sources.
Self-employment is the beginning of an uncharted journey — continual discovery and re-invention, finding yourself doing things you hadn't planned, but for good reasons. There are risks of failure and opportunities of great success and everything in between.
Employment is comparably safer with more visible progression.
People who started out as Self Employed include...