With God's help, of course.Īre you self-employed like Chesterton? What do you like about it? What don't you like about it?Īs you will learn if you click here, this past week your lunatic writer became godfather of a young man named Mark, the son of two dear friends - poets and writers - brilliant young people whom I met at Chesterton Conferences.Īnd it reminded me of the following excerpt (among others) from our Uncle Gilbert. But the upside is you are your own man (in the old fashioned sense of the word). The price is keeping up with all of the government regulations, the paperwork, paying the taxes, (fees, fines, licenses and so forth are basically still taxes), and managing the headaches. One might even think there might be a consipiracy to discourage small business.īeing one's own boss comes at a price. Today, in America, a person who is self-employed, and whether it's someone who is a sole proprietor or someone who has up to 100 employees (all considered by the government to be a "small" business), the endless paperwork can seem overwhelming. Although Frances didn't have to go to work, they had a gardener and a housekeeper and a cook, and so he obviously made an adequate living. He procrastinated his deadlines and never became rich. He seems to have had a difficult time with money-handling, book-keeping, record-keeping and such.
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