when I owned my own business for 11 years it was the busiest I had ever been in my life but it was also much more rewarding than working for anyone else. It was the most rewarding and also the most punishing sort of employment I ever had. There were some seriously stressful days and the troubles we had plague me to this day in my dreams even though I haven't had a business in nearly a decade. I don't regret having done it, but I would not ever want to do it again.