Are you tired with your regular carrier or 9-5 job? Are you dreaming of starting your own business and becoming the boss yourself? This dream is becoming a reality for the millions of people who have chosen to start their own business at home. You can do it too. Here are some benefits of running your home-based business:You are the boss. This reason only is usually enough for someone to start their business at home and leave the 9-5 job.The benefit of your hard work is yours alone. If your business returns some profit then it is all yours. No one else can take it from you.The flexibility of work is in your hand. You can choose your place and time to do your business. There is no limitation. You can work in night or day and you can work wherever you want. It is all yours to decide.The clients or customers are yours to decide. It is true that you have to serve your customer kindly and obediently, but if they mistreat your kindness and give you more headache than they are worth then it is a good option to end this relationship for good. And you can do it since you are the boss.You can allocate your time freely for your business. You can work only a few hours a day or a week. You can also choose to do a full-time schedule just like your old company does if you want to. The more effort you put into your business, the more money you can make.Those are some benefits from a home-based business. Those reasons are just a tip of an iceberg. You may have your own version of what you like from creating your home-based business. One reason for sure is all of them are looking for: freedomAlthough many people success from their home-based business and happy with the result, some people feel a headache when they decided to start their business. Starting your own business is also a hard work and there are no guarantees for its success. Do not get careless and forget take a good consideration of some potential pitfall:The business is in your home. Home is usually full of distractions such as kids who like to play around, music and television noise, and many other distractions.You are the boss. If you are the boss, then you are the one who has to be motivated every day. You do not have someone superior than you who keep an eye and put some pressure to your works. Usually people tend to slack off when he or she works under no pressure.A home-based business is (usually) a very small business. The ups and down of fickle customer will highly impacted your business and if your customer decides not to pay, it could be fatal for you and your business.You might fail or not like it. No one can guarantee your success in this business. If you fail you may lost a lot of money many of them has to declare bankruptcy if this happen.You may also lose your personal relationships.Those are the true nature of building your own business. You may success or failed and it is happened every time, but in reality starting a home-based business still remains as the top choice of the most people in this world.