>Interesting. I can think of some obvious ones, but what are the things you have had to overcome, or negatives about working for yourself?<

There are quite a few negatives, but it seems most are at the beginning and are a learning process, such as:

Startup money to get you through till you have paying clients or a sucessfull product to sale. In my situation, I didn't quit my day job till I had some paying clients.

Finding the initial clients or initial product you are marketing.

Long nights and weekends, until you learn time management. Making sure you have plenty of family time as there is always something you can be "doing."

As odd as this sounds, getting to the point to realize you are worth several times an hour what your prior day job paid. This was actually the most difficult one I had to beat. This is important, as you have a lot more expenses (health insurance, retirement, and all the other stuff).

Realizing that the odds are you will fail. This is just a fact. However, I just looked at this as a challange and refused to fail. Most people fail cause they simply quit to soon.

Not having all your egg's in one bucket. If you do, and that one client or product goes belly up, you might also.

No one to blame but yourself for the end results.

I think these are the main "general" ones.

Mel Cummings