What does self-employment mean?

Correct answer: Doing one's own work or business

Direct answer: Option C, doing one’s own work or business. Self-employment means a person creates, owns, or manages their own work instead of working as an employee under another employer. It may include farming, running a shop, tailoring, freelancing, or starting a small enterprise; it does not require a large company. Step by step: the person identifies useful work; arranges skills, money, tools, or resources; provides goods or services; and receives income from that activity, while also carrying responsibility and risk. Option C is correct because it states the central meaning. Option A means wage or salaried employment for another person, not self-employment. Option B means absence of work and has the opposite meaning. Option D, only studying, is not employment, although a student may later become self-employed. Memory cue: self-employment means “I run my work,” not “I work for an employer.”