My dad has owned his own body shop for over 20 years now. He puts in a ton of hours, but he loves it. He goes in at about 9 or 10, and can leave whenever he wants. He can take lunches as long as he wants, although he usually just grabs something and brings it back to the shop.
My mom opened up a Dream Dinners early last year, and that has been a lot of hard work for her. She works at P&G during the day, and then go's to the Dream Dinners store at night, and most of the day saturday. She is opening up her second store in Bridgewater Falls in a couple weeks, so that is going to be even more stress.
But her plan, is to eventually hire managers to run the stores, so she can just spend time with the customers and deal w/ finances.
I think she would probably say, if you work really hard in the beginning, everything will come out good in the end.
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