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It's an interesting point you raise about being happier than if you were at a large corporation. I can totally understand that, and in fact my point was don't
by BrandonWatson 17y ago
It's an interesting point you raise about being happier than if you were at a large corporation. I can totally understand that, and in fact my point was don't have the fact that you hate your job be the reason. For you, it was one of the reasons, and in fact appears to be the tipping point.
My experience with some entrepreneurs is that they didn't really understand some of the pain and suffering that comes with running their own gig. Because of this, they get disenfranchised.
- staunch 17y agoI think you're right to warn people, but I don't think you're right to equate the two very different kinds of pain. When you are "forced" to do something for someone else you feel not only the pain of the task, but bitterness and indignation as well. When you're doing it for yourself all you feel is the pain of the actual task, which is not nearly as bad. The difference between wiping your own ass and being forced to wipe your boss's ass.
- abalashov 17y agoThat having been said, the pain of the actual task can be very acute if the task is not interesting.
- DougBTX 17y agoIt might feel like those accounts and tax returns are done not for yourself, but for some paper-pushing bureaucrat. Bitterness and indignation could easily bubble back to the top - running a business is not a way to run away from arbitary demands from others, only your particular boss at the time. Getting away from a bad work situation could be done by working somewhere else, not necessarily in a bran new business.