Actually thinking about it now the worst offender as far as work life balance I have worked for is a very large multi national. I guess it comes down the manager, but I do think that a small business owner might be the more driven, long hours type that might expect the same from their employees. I guess I have just always been more of a quality versus quantity type of person. I have seen people spend a whole day doing nothing.

Some small business owners develop a god complex from being emperor of their own little kingdom.

Gotta watch out for that. A lot of small business owners are also screamers.

The HUGE upside, usually there's no PC nonsense or memos or "corporate policy" nonsense either.

Yea, Sniper will live in California before we have an ethnic or gender sensitivity class at work.

most people think small business/company means working butts off. Well, I worked for small companies before and we partied all the time. Now, I work for a very large company, where I sit there more than 10 hours is not very rare.

I like the smaller business because of the flexibility and camaraderie with those you work with. I worked for an agency that had 500+ employees, it sucked.

My survival in the position I'm in requires me to get people to buy, and it's very easy for me to do. Not to brag, but I know the game very well, and it's fun for me. Notice I said game, it's not a job, and I will win.

There aren't many places of employment where you fry up cutlets of venison back strap for lunch and drink beer on a Friday afternoon (we went to the grocery store at 11:30, popped tops at noon, had a conference call at 1:15) with your boss. We were doing some work too, but mainly setting the goals for this week. I work 5 days a week, but when hired was told it's a 4 day a week job. 8-5:30, I don't take lunch much.