更糟的是，你要在没有员工安全网的情况下付出这样的持续，连贯的努力。很多员工都习惯装病，或让别人帮忙掩盖他们的工作。但是作为一名创业的企业家，你要坚持下去，不管你感觉如何都要尽自己最大的努力，也不能因为找不到替你的员工就关门休息。你也要对很多雇员喜欢的假期告别了，不管是每年几周的假期或国家的法定假日，至少在你的生意稳定后，在你能自主管理自己的时间之前你都要和这些假期告别。

    6.You have to be able to deal with uncertainty.

    你要有处理变动的能力

    As a self-employed entrepreneur, there's no guarantee that the products orservices you offer will be in demand six months from now. There's noguarantee that your customers will pay their bills on time or even paythem at all. There's no guarantee that your current big client, whoseems to be perfectly happy with your work, won't drop you next week.There's actually no guarantee that you will make any income this monthor the month after. For many ex-employees who are used to having a paycheque arrive regularly every two weeks, the uncertainty of beingself-employed is very difficult to deal with.

    作为一名创业的企业家，不能保证你提供的产品或服务在接下来的六个月里就会有市场需求。也没有谁能保证你的顾客会按时付款或付全款。也没有谁可以保证现在对你的工作非常满意的大客户不会在下个星期就不和你做生意了。实际上没有任何人能保证你能在本月或下个月赚到钱。对很曾是雇员的企业家来说，之前每隔两个星期都会定期有支票进账，而现在创业的不稳定就会变得很难处理了。

    Are you still asking, "How do I start a business?" Good!Because the point of this article is not to scare you off, but to makeyou aware of how you have to readjust your thinking to make the transition from employee to self-employed business owner. Hopefully asyou read through this list of traits you need to become successfullyself-employed, you were saying to yourself, "I can do this". Because every one of the traits I've listed here is an attitude or behaviorthat can be learned, and when it comes to being self-employed,awareness is more than half the battle.

    现在，你是否仍然在问"我该怎么开始创业呢？"那好，因为本文的本意并非想吓跑你，而是提醒你应该要调整好从雇员到创业这样的转变。希望你在读完之后，能够对自己说"我可以做到这些".因为这篇文章中列出的每一条特征都是可以学习的态度或行为，并且，说到创业的时候，全面的认知是战斗的一大部分。