This may have some merit.

I'm taking this class in the Honors college called "What do I want to do with my life?" Which is appropriate, because I really don't; I'm an English major with about ten million hobbies and interests and no idea which one of those things I'd want to turn into a career.

Anyway, one of our assignments yesterday was to do this activity called "potential lives", where we basically would write out in a web any career we'd ever considered doing, even if it didn't seem feasible, and then see if we could find themes between those. When I looked at mine, almost all of them involved 1) something creative, and 2) being my own boss. In fact, quite a lot of the things I might consider for the future involve running my own small business.

I guess I like the idea of working for myself because I hate the corporate mindset; corporate bullshit was the reason I started hating my last job, something I had previously loved, because the new policies were contradictory, basically saying that we were supposed to kiss customers' asses, let them return anything, etc., but also harass them with suggestive selling. I like privately owned businesses because if customers are being assholes or trying to scam you, you don't have to suck up to them; you can tell them to leave or be an asshole right back. There's no corporate, so you can make your own rules as to how you handle things, and probably your non-asshole customers will be happier as a result.

It might be worth thinking about, anyway.