r/JobProvidersAus

Hi, I'm looking into doing the self employment assistance program and have a couple of questions for people who've done it.

Roughly how much is business insurance? I know it varies for different businesses but just after a ball park figure for a small home based business.

How realistic do they allow your financial goals to be? My guy is already talking about me earning $1000 pw and I haven't even started yet.

Just how much "extra" work is involved? I know you have to work to make a business work, but there seem to be a lot of hours of courses, training, meetings and mentoring as well. I read that you have to do enough hours to meet mutual obligations. I'm 60 and my mutual obligations are 15 hours a week, half of which seems will be taken up with training etc. I'm really hoping to make my business successful but there seems to be a gap the size of the Grand Canyon between what I consider successful and what the business mentor woman thinks is successful.

I’ve had two completely different experiences with the same provider just because I ended up with a different consultant. One actually remembered what we'd discussed previously. The other seemed to start from scratch every appointment.

It makes me wonder how much of the service is really about the provider itself and how much comes down to the individual person sitting across from you.