Getting a Job is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Business. Here’s Why.
Don’t Fall Into the Trap of Internet Entrepreneurship.
In the world of entrepreneurship, there is an established “either/or” relationship between the business owners, and the 9–5 employees.
The conviction is that you need to be starting your own business so that you do not end up in a 9–5 job. Because 9–5 jobs are bad, and you are going to be miserable for your entire life if you have one.
Your kids will hate you, you’ll become an alcoholic, and you stand no chance at being able to pay for minor emergencies. So start a business today.
It sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it?
That’s because it is.
The truth is that your job is probably going to be one of the best things that ever happens to you, even if you do end up running a massive company later on in your life.
Getting a job will provide you with financial stability, peace of mind, and more opportunities than you will ever find watching “how to make money from home” videos on YouTube.
1.) Financially Support Yourself
The biggest reason that you should focus on getting into a good job early on in your career is so that you can have money. That almost seems too obvious, doesn’t it?
If you look closely, you’ll notice that a whole lot of the folks on the internet preaching entrepreneurship instead of a job are really not doing a whole lot with their lives so far. They’re writing articles to try and make that money that they are talking about, or they’re still in college and don’t have any bills to pay yet.
Dig around more and find some of the people that are hot in entrepreneurship right now and have actually built empires. You’ll come to find that most of them had multiple jobs for the first few years that they were running their company.
I can’t name a single business owner out there that built their business from the ground up without having a job during the beginning stages.
You’re also going to want to put food on the table and a roof over your head while you are building. Yes, there is definitely value in struggling during these beginning stages and it does light a fire under your rear, but in all reality, there is no necessary reason to put yourself in hell just to start up a business.
Not having to round up investors for funding is usually a goo long-term strategy too.
2.) You Can Learn A LOT From Your Job
Getting a job is by far the best way to step up to the plate in the industry that you want to get into and learn literally everything that you need to know in a short(er) time period.
You will waste a lot of time, money, energy, and effort if you try to start up a business, only to realize five years down the road that you really do not like the work that you are doing, and/or the industry that you are in.
Going and working for a company early on, and doing your job with intent will make you learn the ins and outs of the industry much faster, and it will help you get clear with yourself about whether or not you really want to stick around in that work for your entire life.
If you do end up loving what you do, and decide to carry on with your idea of starting a business, then you’ll be able to build much faster using what you know… as well as the money you’ve built up while you were learning.
3.) Jobs ARE a Good Long-Term Option
Is anyone else getting tired of Twitter talking about how COVID-19 should’ve been the sign that we should all have our own business or multiple streams of income? That’s a pretty ridiculous train of thought.
First of all… You should have multiple streams of income. You know what will get you another stream of income? A job.
Second of all, you are more likely to lose your business than you are to lose your job. Why does nobody talk about that?
Losing an established business is also a MUCH bigger deal than losing your job within that business. That’s a conversation for another time.
The bottom line here is that you should not fall for anyone telling you that a business is a “better” long term option than a job. Most of your standard 9–5 jobs are going to be providing you for the rest of your life (if you choose to stay).
They’re also much easier to kick off, and provide you with everything you need to get yourself to financial freedom. Sure, you probably won’t have total freedom over your schedule or whatever… but if you’re working 9–5 Monday through Friday, you have a pretty good schedule. Trust me.
At the End of the Day, Just Choose What Works for You.
The goal of this article is not to discourage you from pursuing entrepreneurship, freelancing, or anything of the like.
The goal is to bring you some awareness to what you will probably hear along the way about the “rat race” and the “9–5 life” if you do start to pursue that path.
Again, there are far more business owners and freelancers out there that are succeeding because they are supplementing their income from their day job.
Building a business from scratch and scaling it into some sort of mega empire just isn’t for everyone, and it really isn’t that necessary. I’d probably even argue that it isn’t worth it for you.
