Family run businesses

I work in a family run business from home and it's not really all it's cracked up to be. Yes there are benefits, such as it's extremely difficult to be fired, you can make your own schedule to an extent, you don't work with strangers, etc. However, there are a lot more drawbacks than you would think. First of all, if the home is the office, then you never leave work. You can get work related calls at 2 am, in the middle of dinner, on the weekends, at funerals, etc. It never ends. Now that's a good sign meaning business is booming, but it still gets frustrating having a patient or therapist call me 6 times in the middle of class. Another drawback is family itself. As much as you may love your family, or as fun as they are to you, you will hate working with them. Business is best done when it is strictly business and nothing personal. With the family working with you, you can't remove the personal side of your life from anything. Arguments about family matters leak into the work day and feelings get hurt. This makes it difficult to work together for that period of time, and things fall through the crack at work. Personally, as successful as our family business has been, I would love to work in a traditional office setting again.