3 More Reasons I'm Down with OPB

Last week I wrote about the main reason I started a one-person business (OPB).

There are 3 others that piggyback off of the primary reason.

1. I'm a builder. I enjoy the process of watching something I make come into being. When I was 8 years old I got a red toolbox for Christmas. It wasn't a toy toolbox with plastic tools. It was a real metal toolbox with real, grown-up tools. I took that toolbox everywhere with me, tinkering and building anywhere I could. My love of building started with that red toolbox.
2. I'm a hard worker. If I was going to work as hard as I work, I wanted my efforts to go toward something I was building. Born and raised in the land of ag and autos - Michigan - hard work is part of my DNA. I've lived all over the southern U.S. as an adult, but my Midwestern work ethic follows me wherever I go.
3. I wanted to call the shots and have control over my time. This one gets tricky. At first glance it may sound like I wanted to control my time because I wanted more free time. This is a trap folks just starting an OPB get into. You will not have more down time. It was important for me to control my time so I was better able to ramp up or down cash flow as I needed. For better or for worse (I happen to feel it's for better) as an OPB your mind will always be on your business. The challenge becomes making your work do-able wherever you happen to be.

When I'm feeling stuck or frustrated in my business, wondering why I ever started down this OPB road in the first place, I come back to the reasons I struck out on my own. It always recenters me.

If you were to start your own OPB, what would be your reasons?