reasons why you shouldn't get hired

No I disagree. Owning a business is hard work, you put in more work than you're paid for, and things may not work out well for you and what happens when the money isn't coming in? At least at a regular job you're paid no matter how busy or slow it is, and you get paid time off, plus a lot of time you get benefits but if you own your own business you have to buy your own benefits.

Having a job at least provides stability and steady income. If it's not the job you want, or the schedule you want, unless you have enough means to choose something else you are pretty much stuck with doing whatever you need to in the short term. I think working for yourself is great. But most people who do become successful business owners/entrepreneurs have the opposite mentality of what you described here. On TOP of that, most people who work for themselves, at least in the beginning, have no set schedule but DO NOT get to choose what hours they work. They work when the business demands them to work. They may not have a single boss, but people who work for themselves work for all of the customers who support their business. They probably (especially in the beginning) do not get a salary and work for VERY LITTLE money, and much less than they would if they worked for someone else since their client base may be smaller, there may be high initial overhead, and most business startups actually lose money for the first five years or so. Just some things to keep in mind. People who work for themselves who are successful work harder, longer and more sporadic hours and sometimes have to make certain financial sacrifices. Eventually someone could make a lot of money and have more freedoms. But starting out that isn't going to happen. It takes YEARS to build a successful, self sustaining business.