You Need To Be An Entrepreneur
Career Ramblings:
And here is why…
1. Risk is fun and exciting. I am talking about calculated risk not haphazard risk. Would you rather sit in front of a computer screen all day mindlessly crunching numbers in excel or proof reading your bosses work about material you have no interest in, or would you rather take an idea you are truly passionate about and turn it into something you can focus all your attention toward and watch it grow and make you money? I would rather focus on the latter.
2. You are on your own time schedule. When you are building your own business, there is no one there to tell you when to come into the office and when you can leave. Your only objective is to grow your idea/business into the most successful project you can, so your job is to do whatever it takes to make the growth happen. If you are a morning person, you can wake up at 5am and work; if you are a night owl, you can sleep in but stay up til 3am working your butt off. Be sure to remember that even though you are on your own time schedule, success still takes a lot of work.
3. Your success is in your own hands. The extent of your success is solely in your own hands. The formula for your success is: Quality of idea + hard work + luck = success. You are not relying on the CEO, your boss, or your district manager to determine your success.
4. Monetary reward. If you work a typical 40 hour week and make $30 per hour, and you happen to have a flash of brilliance that results in your company making an extra $50,000 in revenue, how much of that do you make? Most likely still your $30 per hour. If the same flash of brilliance occurs while implementing your business idea, guess what? All $50,000 goes into your pocket.
5. Satisfaction and self-actualization. There is nothing more satisfying than successfully growing your idea into a competive business. You are taking strides toward reaching your full potential in your business life. This is a difficult feeling to come by when you are working a $30 per hour job getting slapped around by your boss. I firmly believe people need to feel they are self actualizing in some way in order to be truly happy.
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