Be self-employed, a valid alternative?

Losing employment, capitalize on unemployment, invest and embark on the adventure with a business of your own. Four steps forward to stay in the same site: start from scratch. But there is no vertigo (cannot exist) for thousands of Spaniards who are in the decision to opt out of autonomous high as the only open door. "With 45 years, two kids and a mortgage, after 30 years working, no longer saw me looking for a employment miserable that even exists," summarizes José Ignacio Oliva. So he invested all two years ago to mount the laundry cyclone in the Carabanchel PAU, in Madrid. New business, new life and new uncertainties. "At least, wanted to be independent and do it for my account".

"At the time of giving the step very diverse factors involved and the reasons to undertake are varied. On the one hand, is the one who wants to grow professionally and holding the reins of her career, and there are others for whom it is a fact almost natural, such as lawyers, doctors in the private sector or psychologists, but there are also those who analyzed the market situation and say: 'I want to work even as a self-employed'. In Spain has grown the number of entrepreneurs, but in large part by the lack of alternatives", explains Javier Santos, CEO and founding partner of Infoautonomos.com.

An opinion that corroborate the data from the latest entrepreneurial climate Observatory. The study, prepared by the Initiator and Sage Foundation, points out that the main reason for which a worker is set by your account is the lack of opportunities in the labor market (37 % ), fairly ahead of the personal fulfilment (22 % ). It is important to find a solution for the future as it may, however, although 89% of new entrepreneurs believes that in Spain is not encouraged the creation of companies, more than half of the self-employed (55 %) is in agreement with the self-employment as a good outlet for young people under the age of 30 who are looking for work.

Counted so brief, the story sounds almost heavenly, but are hidden behind the fears. Any entrepreneur, either vocational or desperate, what goes wrong. "Is that it’S all to a letter. You invest the savings, applying for a credit, you ask for help to the family… fear there is a lot, both as illusion", recognizes José Ignacio Oliva. And this has been like that for years, before the current economic situation.

He lived in the first person Augustine Jimenez, who had suffered from the crisis of the dotcom boom of the early twentieth century. With 26 years ago, in 2002 he worked as a journalist in Deporweb, in Madrid, and when your company closed decided to go to Valencia, register as autonomous and join the business from his father, devoted to the marketing of citrus fruits. "The decision because I thought a lot about meant change everything. At that time he preferred to be paid, be autonomous amounted to live with doubt. When you start you don't know how much you are going to win, if you're going to be able to sustain the enterprise… ", he says. La Nostra La Fruita, twelve years later, running perfectly, but the uncertainty is always maintained. "Never you're no longer aware of what it means to be autonomous. There are seasons in which these in the air, and if something goes wrong the responsibility falls on you".