By Gary Harvey http://FindHotMarkets.com

Operating your own home business is not all a bed of roses.

So let’s take a few moments to consider some of the downside of earning your living at home.

This is a bit of a reality check, okay? — to remove any rose tinted lenses that some guru might have handed you during a sales pitch for a high priced product.

LISTING THE DISADVANTAGES

1. It’s far too easy to NEGLECT YOUR FAMILY when you are working at home. There is something twisted about the logic that says I’m doing this for my family if I am neglecting them in the process.

Too many company employees have fallen into this trap of putting career before family, and only found out too late. Just working at home does not make us immune to that reality. Keep an eye out for signs that your family needs a dose of you.

2. The work is NEVER FINISHED. There is always something extra you can do to grow your business.

3. If your business is computer based, as mine is, you can easily find yourself SITTING TOO LONG at the keyboard. You can suffer neck pain from a lack of the usual side to side, up and down movements of everyday life.

In fact, our daughter-in-law who is a physiotherapist has written up a sheet of neck exercises for me to do as headache preventatives. Oh yes, reminder to self… must do my neck exercises.

4. There can be considerable FINANCIAL PRESSURE during the business establishment phase. Okay, this will be less if you are working full time while you build your business on a part time basis such as in the evenings and on the weekends. But that sort of schedule has its own challenges such as not neglecting your loved ones.

5. When you go away on HOLIDAYS, you have to find a way to take care of any ongoing maintenance needs for your business. Someone to take care of customer support and answer email, for example.

6. COMPUTER PROBLEMS can be highly stressful if your computer is central to your business activities. To prevent disasters of this nature, you have to think about backup systems. How would you recover from total hard disk failure? Then there is the ongoing threat of viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits and more.

7. HANDLING INTERRUPTIONS. It can be quite a challenge when you don’t want to rude to your family members or friends who interrupt your work, but on the other hand if you are not careful the downtime can become excessive. How would you plan to handle or prevent these productivity-killing interruptions from family and friends? – without ruining those relationships.

8. You’ve got nobody else to BLAME when something you did goes pear-shaped.

9. And finally, if your business dealings with your customers are online rather than face to face, it is easy to become a scruffy, unwashed character who’s still in PAJAMAS in the middle of the day. (Now I wonder how would I know that? Hmmmm.)

Of course, the good news is… there are solutions to each and every one of these disadvantages if we take the time to think about them.

SO WHAT IS THE VERDICT?

“Tell me Gary. Overall, does home business have more advantages or disadvantages?”

Well if you ask me (and you just did – thanks!), I reckon…

HOME BUSINESS ROCKS !

I enjoy most aspects of running my own home based business, as you can tell in a companion article I wrote called “Advantages of Home Based Business” (http://eprofitnews.org/advantages-of-a-home-business).

And I’d be pleased to help make it happen for you too if that’s your dream.

This dream business of yours cannot start until you learn how to make money online but we can help with that. When you need some ideas for a home based business — and I mean a profitable one, you will be pleased to know there are actually more than 37 different ways to find yourself a profitable niche market. And they are all explained at http://FindHotMarkets.com

Article by Gary Harvey. Gary has been a full time internet marketer since 2003 and he enjoys the freedom of working in his home office. His goal is to help others achieve the same thing. To add his expertise to your Google web searches, visit http://eProfitNews.org and click on the Google button near the top right of your screen.