Jobs · Work
work for yourself
be self-employed
If you work for yourself, you earn money from your own business or services.
This vs that
I work for myself.
I work for a company.
Hear it in real life
Who do you work for?
No one, really. I work for myself.
After years in an office, she decided to work for herself.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
This is the normal everyday way to say 'be self-employed'.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I work by myself as a freelance designer.
Say: I work for myself as a freelance designer.
'By myself' means alone, not self-employed.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
work for yourself; work for myself/yourself/himself
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about jobs.
land a job
She landed a job with a local software company.
work your way up
She worked her way up from receptionist to office manager.
Jobs words
Work · Jobs: the words around “work for yourself”.
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Your turn: say it out loud
I work for myself.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
work for yourself
be self-employed
“After years in an office, she decided to work for herself.”
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