Nowadays, many people choose to be self-employed rather than to work for a company or organisation. Why might this be the case? What could the disadvantages of being self-employed?

Success in work has many ways, some people have chosen to work in big companies,
while
others have tried to do it by themselves. There are many disadvantages for them when they want to be self-employed. In
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from start-up.
Firstly
, most self-employed people who are of the younger generation usually tried to be a start-up whilst they were are not a great person. They do not have enough
knowledge
or
experiences
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to manage or develop an idea for
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. In
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case, it is easy for them to become bankrupt or in debt.
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, the founder Khoi Nguyen with the WeFit trademark which is an application on smartphones to
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customers with Gym, Yoga, Boxing and Zumba to save time and money.
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customers, so they did not use it, and .
As a result
, it was removed from the google store.
Secondly
, some self-employed people are studying from some great person or following a trend,
while
they don't have enough
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knowledge
, and financial capital, it
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unsuccessful.
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Nguyen Hoang Hiep, 28 years old, comes from Khanh Hoa province,
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. Hiep followed the trend “give up
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, go back
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”, he has given up a job with a high salary in the city, more than 20 million
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and
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his study was on economics,
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his choice was on organic farming in agriculture to do. He didn't have enough
knowledge
and
capacity
to control diseases. So, he has failed consecutively and lost
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capacity
to recover his work.
In contrast
to unsuccessful cases, some of the self-employed
also
become a businessman by their will and help.
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Nguyen Thanh Dong, who is the son of the director of a company in Hanoi city, wants to start-up
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30 hectares Mint farm by himself in Ninh Thuan province.
First,
he
also
has troubles with management and control of his farm, but his parents have strong support
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financial capital. With the support from his family, he tries to study more experts on agriculture and import more new technologies to build his farm . He tried to find more partners who are especially good at selling in other countries to sign contracts. And now, he is a big Mint exporter in Vietnam and his products are exported to many countries
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Japan, Korea, China and India. In general, if anyone wants to be a self-employed or successful startup person,
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should be thought about
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risks
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this
process. It’s not only to have enough
knowledge
, experience, passion, etc. but it’s
also
needed a good financial
capacity
and know how to sell their products to the customers.
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Answer the 'Advantages and Disadvantages' topic

IELTS advantages and disadvantages questions normally give you a statement and ask you to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of that statement.

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  • Introduction
  • Body paragraph 1 – advantages
  • Body paragraph 2 – disadvantages
  • Conclusion

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  • The main advantage is...
  • The disadvantage of this...
  • The main benefit...
  • Despite these advantages...
  • One possible drawback...

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  • self-employment
  • freelancing
  • entrepreneurship
  • autonomy
  • financial stability
  • work-life balance
  • financial insecurity
  • lack of support
  • resources
  • long working hours
  • uncertain income
  • job security
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