Many community colleges offer non-credit classes on "How to Start" or "How to Run a Small Business." It will give you a quick overview of the skills you need to run a successful small business.
Go to the library and talk to the business section librarian, you will find shelves of books with small business start-up ideas, along with all sorts of support information--locating a business, financing, record-keeping, marketing, customer service, etc.
You might invest a couple of hundred dollars in some focused apptitude tests, (often offered at colleges through their student employment offices.) The results might point you toward a skill set you already have that translates into a business. (You will find books with a more generalized aptitude testing at the library, too.)
While you are doing your research, you might consider working for a small business to see if you like working with fewer people, dealing with every contingency, and working longer hours than a regular 9-5 job.
It takes discipline and patience, imagination and flexibility to successfully run a small business and unfortuantely, no one is there to pat you on the back for a job well done.
However, if you are hard-working, a self starter, and smart about the type of work you select, then it can be very rewarding.
2007-11-15 06:53:04
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