The Advantages and Disadvantages Of being self Employed And Working for a Large Company.

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The Advantages and Disadvantages

 Of being self Employed

 And Working for a Large Company

One of the advantages of being self-employed is that you get a bigger share of the profits that the company makes, when you work for a smaller company you only get what your paid, nothing extra, unless you work on commission. You also get more flexibility about the hours you work and the holidays you can take, if you work for a large company you do what hours the company tells you to do and you only have a certain amount of time that you can take off.

When working for a Large company you also have bosses who tell you what to do and when, and if you don’t do it your on your way to the job centre, but if your self employed you’re your own boss and you can do what you like when you like. However when working Self employed you have direct responsibility over the company and any mistakes that you make could ruin the company and if your not there all the time something can go wrong and no one would know what to do, if you work for a large company you don’t have as much responsibility, although it really depends on what job you have within the company. If you have a higher up job in the company you have a responsibility for the people in the company below you, but if you’re at the bottom of the pile then all your responsibility is on doing the job well.

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You also have to look after much more things to do with the company if you own it, e.g. employee’s wages and dealing with big problems, as well as being skilled in a wider range of work like keeping the books for your staff and being able to sort out any problem that comes your way.  When you work for a large company the only work you have to do is the work of the job that you applied for, it’s a much more specialist system of work. You only do what your good at.

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