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Hello,

I think you should just tell them the difference between the two or emphasize the benefits of being the business owners themselves.

For example, as an online business owner you:
- get up whenever you want
- commuting takes you about 20 seconds
- you start your work whenever you want, and you may even skip a day to relax
- you don't have to work for 35 years to get your pension, which is probably not even going to be enough to live a comfortable life
- not even the sky's the limit with your earnings, only you yourself are
- no one above your head to tell you what and how, and when to do something
- you decide if and when you are going to start a project etc.

As Rosalind Gardner said: "Lifestyle and freedom of choice, not money, is what being self-employed is really all about."

Thank you.
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Hello,

I think you should just tell them the difference between the two or emphasize the benefits of being the business owners themselves.

For example, as an online business owner you:
- get up whenever you want
- commuting takes you about 20 seconds
- you start your work whenever you want, and you may even skip a day to relax
- you don't have to work for 35 years to get your pension, which is probably not even going to be enough to live a comfortable life
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