A Satisfying Career: Starting and Running Your Own Résumé Writing Business

Excerpt: One of the most difficult things to achieve when working from home is work-life balance. While all of us welcome business and look forward to the opportunity to make enough money to support our families, most of us would balk at the idea of a client ringing our doorbell at 11.00 pm or calling us at the end of a shift at 2.00 am to discuss their career aspirations! To avoid having to walk around with business clothes in your own home you need to establish your own boundaries as a matter of priority.

Building a résumé writing business involves more than writing well.

A Satisfying Career looks at what it takes to turn that skill into a structured, sustainable service—drawing on years of real-world experience to explore both the opportunities and the challenges involved.

Rather than focusing on quick-start ideas, the emphasis here is on how a business actually functions over time: how it is positioned, how decisions are made, and how it is managed day to day.

Note: Written in 2010, this book reflects an earlier chapter of the home-based business world. 
While some of the tools and references are now dated, the thinking around clients, pricing, and building a business that actually works has stood the test of time.