Current Events > Entrepreneurship is looking more and more like an attractive endeavor....

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I realize it's not for everybody. A lot of people lack the means and resources to fund a business themselves. A lot of people are intimidated by investing money into their business and risking losing it all. A lot of people are scared at the idea of not being given a clear direction to go in and don't want to risk making the wrong choices. A lot of people don't want to take their work home with them, and are content with getting paid for 8 hours of their time every day rather than having to grind for an indefinite amount of hours every day for an indefinite period of time for very little (at least initially). That's not something everyone has the time or the patience to do.

But when I think of a traditional job, it takes all the power away from the employees. Somebody tells you when to come in, when to leave, how long you have to work, what jobs you're allowed to do. Your pay is capped, so regardless of how hard you work, you make the same money regardless. The potential to earn more is basically a carrot dangled in your face to convince you to work harder, but there's no guarantee that you'll even get that, and if you do, it might not even be worth your time in the end. A lot of people like the added security of working a traditional job, but companies can basically lay you off and fire you for whatever reason, so that security is highly overstated IMO. Two of my family members got laid off from jobs they've been working for years, because their companies saw an opportunity to minimize loss by cutting people off, without any regard for their families.

Then I think about what I did at my previous job, using my skills, experience and knowledge and why I can't just offer my skills and build up my own clientele with my own business? Conceptually, it's no different than spending countless hours hunting for jobs and doing interviews, trying to market my skills and experience to the hiring manager to convince them that I'd do a good job for them. The only difference is that I'd have a "steady" job in exchange for surrendering my freedom to them and having them assign a value to a job they've pigeonholed me into that for, the most part, is non-negotiable since they can just find someone else that's willing to do the job for less.
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