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What's worse: failing to start a company, or believing your skills and your job are going to keep you safe/secure and create a sustainable life and retirement?

• elforce002 4y ago
  Interesting take. My parents were risk averse and work until retirement age. My father told me he doesn't regret being employed but times change, companies are not what they used to be, and the way things are going it'll be better to just pick a niche and try to come up with a startup. This is coming from a person who didn't go to college and got his house, cars, vacations every year, etc... all that just by working a 9-5 job. Company loyalty and career development is almost not existent. Things have changed for the worse and we might as well give it a shot.
• NineStarPoint 4y ago
  Well if your skills and your job are considered static, yeah that’s equally risky. If you have the ability to keep learning and evolve with the job market, then no I think that’s still a much safer option. Or maybe it’s better to say that starting a successful company is extremely reliant on your ability to have insight into what need in the market isn’t being filled and how to monetize that need (or what needs can be created, if you’re extremely ambitious). If you can learn quickly, navigating “what skills will existing businesses pay a premium for” takes much less insight in comparison.