Turns out almost all jobs, with the possible exception of commission-only sales, are nothing like owning a business at all. For one thing, you're only covering

Turns out almost all jobs, with the possible exception of commission-only sales, are nothing like owning a business at all. For one thing, you're only covering a tiny part of the enterprise. Another issue is you have a performance safety net. Most people coast through life, which is OK, but that's not good enough for running a company. The most important problem though is that a job has a well-defined path, but in business you can never know what the "right" thing to do is until after you've done it and it either worked or didn't. Having a well-trod path you can follow is a million times easier than starting with nothing and making it all up as you go along. To quote King George 3 in Hamilton: "it's so much harder when it's all your call." I think the way to do it is to start a business, inevitably fail, and then just rinse and repeat until you finally figure it out. Easier said than done!