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Wow. Pretty darn serious thread. I admire all of you who have already shared, so here goes...
I'll be 35 in a month.
Married, own a home, got a 2.5 year old son and another one on the way.
I'm technically living the dream. It's pretty good, but the truth is the dream isn't as amazing as it once sounded.
I've known that I wanted to work in the field of web design/dev since high school.
I worked a couple of "real" jobs for marketing agencies out of college before going solo with freelancing and starting my own business.
I've now been working full-time for myself for over 9 years.
Things have been been good during that time, or better put: "good enough."
I haven't changed things with my business much in these 9 years because I didn't need to. But I've plateaued with what I can accomplish running a 1-person business, and it's time to build something that will take me through the next 5-10 years.
I'm trying to change my service offerings and productize my services just a bit so that I can delegate work I shouldn't be doing and more effectively serve my clients. That would create a more streamlined process that would allow me to increase volume without a drop in quality.
The ultimate goal is to have my wife be able to quit her job and work full-time for the business. That flexibility would be huge for us. It's something I believe is totally possible, but the business needs to gross at least 1.5X what it does right now. I hope to get to that point within the next 3 years.