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And it does not ALWAYS feel free at all.\n \nOk! that&#039;s the rant I wanted to share with you. Anyone else thing entrepreneurship is freaking hard?  Let me know in the comments.\">If one more person tells me: \u201cI must feel so free owning my small business, I\u2019m blocking them forever. #kiddingnotkidding. \n\n\n\"Feeling free\u201d is the last thing I experience when ______( I'm packing shipments for FEDEX \/ I'm working late at night on my sales page \/  looking over the menu for tomorrow's Wine Evening long after everyone is in bed etc).\n\nI know people mean well but I feel more folks need to acknowledge the work we, small biz owners, put in.\n \nThis is true especially at the beginning of the journey, deep in the middle too where we don't have a clear idea of--------(how our dreams will evolve  \/ what the next step should be etc)\n\nBecause as much as I sometimes wish that the path was all mapped out clear, when I think about, it's not. 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And it does not ALWAYS feel free at all.<\/p>\n<p>Ok! that&#8217;s the rant I wanted to share with you. Anyone else thing entrepreneurship is freaking hard?  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