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I think for some people working for someone else is akin to selling off a piece of your soul daily. It's not about the money - it's about having autonomy, excit

I think for some people working for someone else is akin to selling off a piece of your soul daily. It's not about the money - it's about having autonomy, excitement and risk in your career. Money is just the scorecard. As an entrepreneur you get to hand pick who you work with, what you work on and how you get it done - something basically impossible working for someone else. If you think about it, in no other time in history has it been normal to work in distributed, mega corporations. This path definitely isn't for everyone and there's a lot of real downsides. Personally I grew up telling my Soviet parents that I want to be an entrepreneur - and them telling I need to choose a "real" job. Well after trying the "real job" thing, I vowed to stay as far as I could from corporate life and couldn't be happier. I guess it's just a matter of taste.

honkycat 5y ago
> As an entrepreneur you get to hand pick who you work with, what you work on and how you get it done - something basically impossible working for someone else. If you think about it, in no other time in history has it been normal to work in distributed, mega corporations. You do? I've owned my own consulting firm before. We took the clients we could get, and not all of them were our first choice. But we needed portfolio work and money to keep the lights on. Good clients are worth their weight in GOLD, and are comparatively rare to the "Oh hmm... I thought I was buying a website from you? I have to do stuff?" clients we would constantly see