Would you do your career all over again if you had the chance? If you're a small-business owner, you probably would answer yes to that question. A new Gallup survey found that 84 percent of all small-business operators would still want to open their business if they had it to do over again. Surprisingly, this number didn't change much when the recession was at its peak. Gallup has been asking this question of small-business owners since 2003, and the figure has never dropped below 78 percent.
The most important factor by far has been the independence that it provides the owners. The number of respondents citing "be my own boss" as the most satisfying thing about running their own business is 42 percent - more than twice as many as the next highest answer, "job satisfaction/sense of accomplishment."
What's the biggest challenge for these people? While nothing on the negative side stood out as much as independence, the clear top answer was securing accounts and generating revenue, cited by 23 percent of the small-business owners.
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