When you are self employed you work long hours - often very long hours - and you work very hard, dont let anyone tell you that this won't happen. The old adages that you don't know where your next opportunity is coming from - and you never get a second chance to say no - become your close companions. That phone rings and you take the call. Sure, there's a stage when you feel big enough, busy enough or confident enough to choose your business carefully, and I am a big advocate of this - but you will always still take that call.
Your family won't always (often) understand, especially the husband and especially if he doesnt quite see what you are doing.
Until the money comes in of course... and that's part of the motivation - absolutely. If you're good at what you do the rewards are financial.
And, like me, you're probably not too great at following orders. I know that I know how I think things should be done, and I like it done just that way, so I am happy to put my proverbial butt in the sling and wear the consequences, but I am going to do it my way thankyou, I could not imagine being employed by someone else ever again (I didn't say never mind you - if the offer is right!).
But, overriding this all is choice - choice to work that hour or not, and choice to work where and how I like, for example: 
right now I am working (ok not terribly hard presently) by the side of the inlet at The Entrance NSW with my kids playing in the water right in front of me.
I'm almost finished too - so I'll be joining them shortly - and that's what this is all about.
