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Are You Self-Employed or an Entrepreneur?
(Why You Do What You Do Makes All the Difference)
Some people think that if they are in charge of their own schedule, taxes, and clients they are an Entrepreneur.
Others think that as long as they are a business owner they are an Entrepreneur.
And when completing most applications, choices are typically Employer or Self-Employed. We seldom see the word, “Entrepreneur”!
But while semantics may define both, heart and soul has a more reasonable way of determining what constitutes being either a Self-Employed individual or an Entrepreneur.
Self-Employed means you work for yourself. You are the boss of you, although you may have someone above you who sets the stage for how you do your work. Let’s look at my friend, Sandra, for example.
Sandra works for a community health center as a nurse. The agency she works for brought her on, under contract, to service people who need vaccines, employment or sports examinations, routine health care, or have some non-specific and non-life-threatening health issues.
Sandra works approximately 20 hours/weekly for this agency.
Sandra considers herself Self-Employed. She does not need to market her services to get clients and she performs her duties at a location she…
