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> In the UK, entrepreneurs try too. The first thing that happens is they become social outcasts. They’re labeled, with a bit of a laugh, ‘delboys’ what is this
by pclark 17y ago
> In the UK, entrepreneurs try too. The first thing that happens is they become social outcasts. They’re labeled, with a bit of a laugh, ‘delboys’
what is this nonsense. (If anything I find high correlation between entrepreneurs and getting laid.)
- petercooper 17y ago(I thought you were plc on Twitter and hence British? I'll explain anyway for the benefit of the non-Brits!) Del Boy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Boy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Boy - is the lead character in, perhaps, Britain's best ever sitcom that ran in the early 1980s, Only Fools and Horses. Del Boy was a slightly shady trader-cum-entrepreneur who always had an eye out for some dodgy merchandise to shift. Calling some a "Del Boy" communicates the attitude of seeing entrepreneurs as fly by nights, always looking out for an easy buck.
- pclark 17y agooh, heh, I simply meant "this doesn't actually happen" :) Lovely Jubbly!
- EwanMacLeod 17y agoIt's happened to me and my colleagues and their colleagues (repeat) many times. Good news for you though, if you've not experienced it!
- petercooper 17y agoI don't know how popular it is, but I've faced it. I now only tend to associate with people in the lifestyle or who have aspirations to work for themselves anyway. I'm guessing it's a lot less common nowadays, though, simply because entrepreneurship and business have become "cool" thanks to the popularity of the Internet and TV shows like Dragon's Den (Shark Tank, to those of you in the US) and The Apprentice. In the last 90s, though, when I first became self employed, people did react a bit weirdly!
- EwanMacLeod 17y agoThat's actually very accurate for certain segments of UK society
- axod 17y agoMaybe you hang around the wrong segments :/