Originally Posted by Blackcat31:
Hopefully, you will save everything (ideas etc) you have planned now so that when you get a few years under your belt of doing actual hands-on care as your own boss, you will be able to look back and see how so many things are great in theory but not so great in practice. 
I had such grand ideas! Man was I naive, mainly about things like interactions with parents (they're all so nice right?!) and there were so many things I was gonna do! I wish I had found this forum PRIOR to starting!
