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Do you hate working? Start your own firm!
It was yesterday. I was looking again at some new blogs and scanning through the content. I don’t read, I skim (until I find something worthy of my time and then I am getting more inclined to actualy read). There was a project with an article that would encourage the readers to start their own business, if they really hated working.
What I could understand from that article was something like “Do you hate working? Start your own firm!”.
I couldn’t agree less with this statement and I consider this in the end to be a BAD REASON to start a firm. Why have I started my own firm?
- because I wanted to work more. Yeah, I was feeling like I am not reaching my true potential there and knew I can do more
- wanted to have no more lousy bosses (yeah, I did have this too and believe me it’s not nice)
- was willing to work a lot to develop since I know working more means earning more
- knew I was able to manage my own destiny and skills
- wanted to be the sole benefitor since I knew I was the one who would keep the firm alive
Most of the time people start a business because they want to EARN SOME MORE and not be forced to deal with abusive CEOs or nasty coleagues. They make this huge step since they know their true potential and know they can manage the project on their own (or with their own team) and are willing to put ALL THE EFFORT it takes to make it work.
If you like to just relax at work and dislike working hard, then do your future business a favour and stay employed. Play online chess, go to prolongued cigar breaks and fake working. You get a small wage indeed, but maybe in the end you don’t deserve more.
And, if you are a hard working person, think about getting on a better place. Struggle for a better salary, struggle for a better position. If all fails, why not start your own business then? Don’t start it for relaxing, since you won’t make it. From the moment you are your own boss and sign all the paperwork in your own firm you have 2 possible ways:
1. just chill and enjoy the new position: take many vacations, relax in the weekends, still play online chess or chat on Yahoo Messenger as you used to. The bad thing is that your business WON’T WORK and in some months/years you might go back to your old lousy job. At least there you were paid for doing nothing.
2. take it seriously and work your mind off: no vacations for 2-3 years, till all is up and running. Work on the weekends, work at nights, amass more capital, improve your services, please clients, be better. Hire people, manage budgets, increase earnings, be tired, but effective. Then after some time you’d be able to take a small vacation and then come back again to work.
The ideal of having a business and just relaxing is utopic most of the time. A good business is the one you keep running by working not extra-time, but way too much. It’s not something you can keep on doing tens of years from now on. No one said you should work 90 hours a week for a lifetime. Just do this as much as it takes to secure that firm. And then, get good employees and have few days off too. In the end we’re not robots 
That kind of thinking is very common nowadays. People also think that they can blog in order to avoid working, while those who already make a living off their blogs tell them that:
* you don’t need a blog to earn money online, you need a business (which could be a blog-writing business)
* people who own businesses don’t work less, they work harder and smarter
But that’s just how people are. If you read that piece of advice somewhere it doesn’t mean that the author believes it, he/she might just now that it’s what people want to hear.
Hello Tiberiu and welcome to the blog
I do agree with you. All people think about Darren or John and want to live off their blog. They fail to realize that these guys still work A LOT in order to keep that revenue coming. They are first good businessmen and then excellent bloggers.
But we all like to take shortcuts and get more for less. The problem is that most of the time one needs to work a lot in order to earn something.
I subscribed to your feed and I read many of your previous articles. I find them very interesting and I think you’re doing a great job.
Keep up the good work! The better your write, the higher our expectations become.
Thank you for the nice words, Tiberiu, they do mean a lot. I am not that old in the blogging “business” and I do have my own doubts. Seeing my articles are well received can only make me happy since I do write them to be useful
It is a nice dream to work only for yourself. I still only employee. But my dream is make money online from my webpages. But it looks that it is a long way before me. Nice post. Thanx
Hi Ramona, this is a great post. I’ve always been a hard worker and I became very bored when working for a large company. I now work full-time for a small company and I also have a business of my own. I have to do both because I wouldn’t be able to live in the income from my business, at least not yet. Unfortunately this means I can only work on my business in the evening and at the weekend - not that I mind working all the time, but that’s 35-40 hours I can’t spend on my business. Not much I can do about that right now though.
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I agree a lot with you. Starting a new business requires a lot of work and will. To persevere not matter what, to deal with the state authority, taxes, with employees. It’s a headache! But, if you really like to be independent, to make your own schedule and to not have a boss!!!, start a business is for you.
Unfortunately, the hardest thing about starting and running a business isn’t getting the idea or having the expertise in that field, it is all the other problems that result. Our business shows people how to make jewelry by hand without soldering. We have no problem being experts in this field. The problems we have are trying to also be experts in accounting, ordering, inventory management, marketing, order processing and sales. While you can outsource many of these functions, most small businesses can not afford to outsource all of them. Making jewelry is the fun part of our business. Marketing, accounting, etc. are the hard work part and really aren’t fun.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.