I am an entrepreneur and I love it. The creation process is amazing; to see peoples getting together, working 24/7, like if there were high on some drug, sparking with ideas. To view the product, service become a success.
To be an entrepreneur running your own show or at least a big stake of it, it is the best choice one can do and the only way to get really, really rich.
Some entrepreneurs make a ton of money, and some don't, anyway both will have a fabulous journey.
Get A Job
Of course you could always get a job. You could compare it to invest all your money in someone else business! On the upside, after a year you might earn 3 percent more. The downside? Any day you could lose it all, for reasons usually outside your control and that you will almost never see coming, your upside is always capped--sure, you might occasionally get a raise, but in most cases 3 to 4 percent is the best you can expect.
Yet your downside is always unlimited because getting fired or laid off can make your income disappear overnight--and with it the considerable investments you've made in time, effort, dedication, and sacrifice.
Make A Job
Yes invest in yourself and your idea, be an entrepreneur, work 24/7 during the start-up process, find solutions to impossible problems, the sense of fulfillment and excitement of working with a real team, the amazing feelings of empowerment and the control over your own destinies, now you know how it feels to be an entrepreneur.
Yet downside is always time because getting there need sacrifices, like family and friends. You need to get them idler involved or/and understating and supporting your venture. But most important you need to relax your brain, and your family and friends are a perfect for that.
Every entrepreneur lights up when we talk about being an entrepreneur because we feel alive: free to chart our own courses, to make our own decisions, to make our own mistakes and to let the sky be the limit. Big mistake, the sky is not the limit. We have been to the moon and we have sent gizmos far out into deep space, so rock it dud and never stop making that idea your future.
The Best Deal
In return for less freedom, less control, and less fulfillment, every day you go to work for someone else your upside is always capped and your downside is always unlimited.
The downside for entrepreneurs is also unlimited--but in return, they enjoy the possibility of an unlimited financial upside and an unlimited personal upside.
Most important, the older you get the more experience you have in success and failures of your ventures. Sometime really tough times, sometimes really big losses, but one thing is for sure, you done it, you taste it, you run it, and you seen it, the world. And suddenly you're really, really rich in personal experiences. It means that you have invested in yourself!
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”