#62-Job or Business-What is easy to pursue?

Sidhartha Sharma- Author and Start-up Mentor- Views are personal

“Easy and difficult are merely labels but they do determine our potential”

‘Sidhartha, do you think I can become an entrepreneur? Is it easy to be an entrepreneur?’ I cannot tell you how many times, this exact question or something similar to it is asked to me by the audience, post my seminars, podcasts or book signing events.

I always reply to this question with another question:

‘Do you think it is easy to be an employee?’

Nothing is easy or difficult in itself, it is your thinking that makes it so. As an employee if you do not like the following then being an employee will become difficult for you:

1. Your colleagues,
2. Taking orders from your bosses
3. Office politics and gossips
4. Your salary growth rate
5. Your work
6. Lack of control over your professional life

There are now many opportunities for employees to be entrepreneurs, and invest in their own company stocks or participate in other wealth creation opportunities that your employment contract and local regulations permit.

Do you think it is easy to be a business owner?

Likewise, as a business owner, if you do not like the following then it will be very difficult for you to do business:

1. Operations, Marketing and selling
2. Swallowing your ego in front of difficult customers or government officials
3. Long working hours and erratic work-schedule
4. Business risks
5. Irregular income (profit/losses)
6. Long term planning

Entrepreneur/founder is the first employee of any business.

The risk is higher in entrepreneurship and there are no immediate rewards or encouragement to keep one going. The threat of disruption is always looming on your shoulder. However, if you manage to create a sustainable business model that runs on its own with the help of people, product, and product systems you put in place, then life becomes livable.

However, before you pursue something in the physical world, it should become easy for you in your mental world.

As humans do not act on what they believe to be very difficult for them. I have been a founder and hence I am biased towards experimenting with entrepreneurship for a few years of your life. It is one of the greatest self-awareness endeavors one can undertake. However, I always suggest, a few more things to young folks:

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Best regards,

Sidhartha Sharma