How does it feels to be 20 years late on entrepreneurship?
Posted on March 2, 2008
Last year I’ve turned 30, which besides marking the point where I enter a new part of my life (like the boring, dull maturity) stopped me from an exclusive club - the entrepreneurs getting rich before 30.
Even if I strike rich in a few years, it’s going to be too late to be extraordinary. I won’t get any special loans for your young entrepreneurs. Any mistake is likely to affect my family life even more now. I have commitments and responsibilities.
So, from time to time I’m thinking - maybe if I would have started this earlier…
But most people never start the entrepreneurship path because they are afraid of failure and usually they keep postponing the starting point waiting for… an idea, money to invest, or the Holy Spirit. If you are in this position (waiting for things to happen on their own) then you should read the following article.
Jay Richard’s From the cube to entrepreneurship . Jay has a very well written story about him getting laid off from his job and taking the entrepreneurship path after 16.5 years working for the man. He contemplates the thoughts of an entrepreneur wanna be that still works from the cube:
“So there you are. It’s Thursday afternoon, the sun is bright, the world is beckoning and you think to yourself, “There has to be a million things I could do right now if I could escape work.” ”
“Then, oh yes, THEN, it hits you. ‘I could run my own company, then I wouldn’t have to ask if I enjoy the afternoon in this wonderful place we live’.”
Jay talks about the harsh reality of being laid off after so many years:
“Last year, I was laid off from my company of 16.5 years. They had come to the conclusion that I cost more that I was worth. When I walked out the door I vowed that I was done with agendas and goals and PowerPoint presentations.”
If you find yourself in this situation, Jays article gets even better: he talks about how hard is to start-up, buying a franchise or a running business. I’ve never thought that buying a business could take 18 months to decide!
So how does it feel to be 20 years late in your entrepreneurship experience? Jay says it best: “Oh yes I’m scared. However, the only thing that scares me more is the thought of spending 20 more years staring out of a cubicle on a Thursday afternoon pondering the millions of things I could be doing.”
The entire article.
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