According to Paul Reynolds, entrepreneurship scholar and creator of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, "by the time they reach their retirement years, half of all working men in the United States probably have a period of self-employment of one or more years; one in four may have engaged in self-employment for six or more years.
根据全球企业家监测的企业家学者和创建者Paul Reynolds所述：“到目前，在美国所有工作的人在他们退休时，其中半数人可能有过一到多年自我雇佣的时段；四分之一人很可能从事于自我雇佣超过六年之久。