From Employee to Entrepreneur

[Ziskinberg]

Like many, I was raised with the traditional path..... study hard, get good grades, and land a stable job. I followed that script, not as a top student, but well enough to build a decent career where I gained valuable experience. Yet over time, I realized that job wasn’t my future. So I took the leap, starting a business using my skills and knowledge. It’s far more challenging, but finally, I feel I’m pursuing my true ambition.

What about you? I’m sure it varies by country as some offer such strong worker benefits that people never feel the need to start businesses. Curious to hear others’ experiences.

[Fiatless]

Like many, I was raised with the traditional path..... study hard, get good grades, and land a stable job. I followed that script, not as a top student, but well enough to build a decent career where I gained valuable experience. Yet over time, I realized that job wasn’t my future. So I took the leap, starting a business using my skills and knowledge. It’s far more challenging, but finally, I feel I’m pursuing my true ambition.

What about you? I’m sure it varies by country as some offer such strong worker benefits that people never feel the need to start businesses. Curious to hear others’ experiences.

Even in countries that offer high pay and some work benefits to workers, life is not still easy especially if you are not in the top management of a big firm. Inflation is leading to high cost of goods making salaries not sufficient to sustain the family.

I am happy you have started pursuing your dream. I predict that if you are diligent in this business, it will grow and give more profit. Just ensure that you manage the business well and don't misuse the profit. Don't stop learning and improving on the business because we live in a dynamic society. I would love to start a business also but I am pursuing other endeavors. Good luck.

[SatoPrincess]

OP this topic is similar to an ongoing discussion on the forum: School or Skills, a lot of users have given their opinions and experiences on the thread and I still maintain my position that skills is better than a degree.

[xLays]

I was also once an employee before I discovered Bitcointalk and the world of crypto, but that same discovery also led me down the path of gambling. So instead of improving my financial situation, things didn’t really turn out that way. Still, I consider myself blessed because at least I no longer experience the hardships of being an employee having to go to the office and being stuck with a fixed schedule from 8 AM to 6 PM. I think it’s been around 10 years now since I last worked as an employee, all thanks to crypto.

[uneng]

I believe it's important to seek for different sources of income. To have a stable job can be the beginning for many of us, and that shouldn't be neglected, because when things go wrong, it's the stable job which is going to save the individual from total bankruptcy.

However, as you said, we are constantly pursuing our ambitions to reach somewhere else in this life. There are different routes which can be followed. It's not necessarily needed to start your own business, unless you really like the idea of running your self owned company, aware of all the responsabilities it implies.

Personally, I consider myself still a beginner on financial universe. I had good opportunities with Bitcoin, but now I think I should migrate to something else, while studying and acquiring a superior degree.

[Cointxz]

What about you? I’m sure it varies by country as some offer such strong worker benefits that people never feel the need to start businesses. Curious to hear others’ experiences.

I follow the same path not because I’m not satisfied with my employee career rather than I want to be with my family while earning money so I pursue business together with my wife since I already have enough funds to secure my business funding without the need to rely on loans.

I have a successful career on my corporate because I already managing my own team and has a high salary way above average salary in my country.

Business gives freedom financially and physically because you control your time and the amount you can earn has no limits compared to corporate work.

I wish you a successful business brother. What’s your line of business?

[Pi-network314159]

Like many, I was raised with the traditional path..... study hard, get good grades, and land a stable job. I followed that script, not as a top student, but well enough to build a decent career where I gained valuable experience. Yet over time, I realized that job wasn’t my future. So I took the leap, starting a business using my skills and knowledge. It’s far more challenging, but finally, I feel I’m pursuing my true ambition.

This is a common issue, I think I created a thread that looks exactly like this your own, well each of us once had that believe and hope that after going to school and having good grades the next thing is to get a stable job and leave a better life, but hence the reality of life is different or perhaps the real world is quite different from our emagination. Life after education is entirely another different thing. The best way is to embrace the reality and chase your dreams than just looking for job. just like me I studied electrical engineering in school but today I am chasing another career because waiting to work in electrical engineering company might be a waste of time.

[Despairo]

Usually people who live in first world countries aren't interested to be entrepreneur because they get paid enough, have work life balance and given annual leave. This is different to third world countries who paid low, force their workers to work overtime without getting extra payment, and they do offer annual leave, but they will use many reasons in order to make you can't take annual leave.

I'd choose to be an employee, but employee who work for foreign countries while living in third world countries i.e. working remotely.

OP this topic is similar to an ongoing discussion on the forum: School or Skills, a lot of users have given their opinions and experiences on the thread and I still maintain my position that skills is better than a degree.

Nah it's different.

Work under someone company requires degree and skill, these days having a degree isn't enough. Last two decades there are only 1K people who have degree and there are 500 job vacancies. Now, there are 50K people who have degree and there are only 2K job vacancies, that's why life getting tougher.

[Agbe]

The fact is that there are systems that runs in life and majority of people follows such rules which includes studying hard getting good grades so you can get a good paying job so that you can use in survival but this is not a good mentality because you can't get much from life from this type of mentality because having a job will not guarantee any one financial success for any one to become financially stable that person will have to think out of the traditional believe system of going to school and getting a good result for the purpose of securing a job people have to think the way of entrepreneurship because business is the key to financial freedom

[Akbarkoe]

Like many, I was raised with the traditional path..... study hard, get good grades, and land a stable job. I followed that script, not as a top student, but well enough to build a decent career where I gained valuable experience. Yet over time, I realized that job wasn’t my future. So I took the leap, starting a business using my skills and knowledge. It’s far more challenging, but finally, I feel I’m pursuing my true ambition.

What about you? I’m sure it varies by country as some offer such strong worker benefits that people never feel the need to start businesses. Curious to hear others’ experiences.

That's a great thing buddy not everyone can be an entrepreneur, especially if they already get a big salary and a comfortable life, very few people will think that they should have a business, you have to remember that everyone has the guts to take a bold decision to take a new step in life and can be made as a lifeline after a comfortable life.

I myself am currently still lacking courage but am trying slowly because at a mature age it is necessary to see the opportunities and risks when running something to change the flow of life.

[jcojci]

When someone feels comfortable with his job, he will difficult to move or search for other jobs or better opportunities. He will feel that he can not do like other people and make him stay with his job. He realizes that it is what he needs to do to get his future but he doesn't realize that he can do other things to have a better future.

Not many people can start a new thing besides doing what he does. It needs courage to open his mind that he need other thing to have a better future and have a good life. He realizes the risk but he challenges himself and say that he can do better than the other people. I am still trying what I can do and with my wife, we do something that we believe can help us to gain benefit for our family in the future. One of those things is having Bitcoin investment.

[Miles2006]

Honestly career choice matters a lot probably if you never get to find a good job I will advice a different part, the problem is not all about good grades well sorry to say most graduates with high grades are not doing well meaning they’re not in the standard where they’re meant to be all because the system is messed up. All this depends on the country meanwhile pursuing a skill is better, education is necessary no doubt but op definition above doesn’t work that way whereby getting just a grade without effort of working will only result to poverty. Comparing both an entrepreneur and employee doesn’t sound right firstly, a business owner must have what it takes to hold a business firmly definitely it’s not an easy task yet more profitable.

[avikz]

Like many, I was raised with the traditional path..... study hard, get good grades, and land a stable job. I followed that script, not as a top student, but well enough to build a decent career where I gained valuable experience. Yet over time, I realized that job wasn’t my future. So I took the leap, starting a business using my skills and knowledge. It’s far more challenging, but finally, I feel I’m pursuing my true ambition.

What about you? I’m sure it varies by country as some offer such strong worker benefits that people never feel the need to start businesses. Curious to hear others’ experiences.

Congratulations on breaking free from the middle-class mindset. The education system today is designed to create labours. That's why you will see many billionaires don't even have a college degree. Wealth comes to those who are willing to take risk and follow their passion.

In my country, worker benefit is non-existent. We do have laws around it but no one really follows it. That's why a lot of people are either stuck into a toxic job environment or they simply don't have the courage to start something new.

I hope you are success in your new venture.

[Ishicryptic]

I have heard successful people say that you don't get rich and build wealth by working for someone else, you cannot grow bigger than you income and benefits. It does not mean that people who work for others cannot be successful but I believe that most of them diversify some of their money into investments or aquire skills that gives them alternative sources of incomes. Most employers don't want their employees to become rich so that they will keep working (slaving) for them until the workers are wornout and are not useful to them and other employers. It is possible to go from being an employee to becoming an entrepreneur, what it takes is a shift of your mindset and you will start to think outside the box and see opportunities to excel.

[ultrloa]

Like many, I was raised with the traditional path..... study hard, get good grades, and land a stable job. I followed that script, not as a top student, but well enough to build a decent career where I gained valuable experience. Yet over time, I realized that job wasn’t my future. So I took the leap, starting a business using my skills and knowledge. It’s far more challenging, but finally, I feel I’m pursuing my true ambition.

What about you? I’m sure it varies by country as some offer such strong worker benefits that people never feel the need to start businesses. Curious to hear others’ experiences.

There's no actually we called stable job since once we are seriously ill or commit a huge mistake on the company they can replace us anytime if that situations happens. That's why its better for people not to rely on their job since aside that they might just live pay check to pay check basis. They are wasting their potential to gain more money. That's why its really better for them to upgrade their status and find some business that fits them well.

I know its hard to make this happen especially if you don't have any idea how this venture works. But if you have guts to do a lot of research and have courage to try those plans in your mind then provably that those good situation will came. So don't get afraid to try new and know when to get out on your comfort zones.

[milewilda]

Like many, I was raised with the traditional path..... study hard, get good grades, and land a stable job. I followed that script, not as a top student, but well enough to build a decent career where I gained valuable experience. Yet over time, I realized that job wasn’t my future. So I took the leap, starting a business using my skills and knowledge. It’s far more challenging, but finally, I feel I’m pursuing my true ambition.

What about you? I’m sure it varies by country as some offer such strong worker benefits that people never feel the need to start businesses. Curious to hear others’ experiences.

If you do find yourself that being comfortable into the current situation that you are into then stick into your dayjob and retire when you do get old or you do reach 60 years old. For those people who do have that long term plans or having that not contented on what they do currently earn then they would definitely be thinking up on something else like having another source of income or dealing up with somethign that getting in line with their passion or interest. Actually it will be that just that depending on you because if you do currently get contented on what you do have now then you wont bothering yourself on trying out to deal up with something like making some investment or having up some business. There are also those people that they do want to changed up their lives and thats why they do test or try out to deal up with different career or lets say with entrepreneurship but ended up on failing no matter what they do. Somehow its never been that easy to make yourself that getting successful with this venture or with this type of career. So it will be that situational because there are those individuals who are that trying out to deal up with new careers because they've seen opportunity but we do know that not all do become successful but it doesnt mean that you will be limiting yourself on trying out some opportunities just because you've been scared on failing. You wont be able to know not until that you do able to experience for yourself. It will be that understandable that you do get scared because money isnt simple and considering that trying out some business or investment do simply talks needing up some capital on which you do need up to comply or provide if you do want to test out another venture. This is why it cant be avoided that you do become negative at the moment that you are trying out to deal up with it. There are those times that you are that too optimistic but once you do suffer some loses then those impressions do changed up.

[Ziskinberg]

Most employers don't want their employees to become rich so that they will keep working (slaving) for them until the workers are wornout and are not useful to them and other employers. It is possible to go from being an employee to becoming an entrepreneur, what it takes is a shift of your mindset and you will start to think outside the box and see opportunities to excel.

Not necessarily. It's just that there's a minimum salary standard based on industry norms when you're employed. Of course, business owners take the larger share, that's only fair since they shoulder the risk. If your goal is real wealth, relying on paycheck after paycheck won't cut it, especially if you define 'rich' as achieving financial freedom. You can't retire as an employee and expect that. Time is irreplaceable, so while you're young, you need to explore opportunities and learn to take calculated risks.

[Maslate]

OP this topic is similar to an ongoing discussion on the forum: School or Skills, a lot of users have given their opinions and experiences on the thread and I still maintain my position that skills is better than a degree.

I'd have to disagree,the wisest path is pursuing education while developing business skills. Doing both creates the most complete version of yourself. A degree commands respect and proves your capabilities, while entrepreneurial skills give you financial freedom. Imagine the pride in being both formally educated and business-savvy.

Financial literacy opens extraordinary opportunities. You could build an empire rather than being stuck in the clock-in/clock-out grind where retirement just means living off meager savings for medical bills. Why settle for survival when you could create legacy wealth?

[slapper]

You deleted the inherited script and wrote your own. That alone is rare. Most people never reach that degree of clarity not because they are lazy but because systems are designed to encourage compliance rather than reinventions. There is no manual anymore cause you have left a predictable game. Just feedback loops, economic upheaval, and personal responsibility. Welcome to the high-volatility version of self-determination

Entrepreneurship , however, is about more than ambition. I'm referring to bandwidth. Internal, emotional, existential bandwidth. Not everyone is supposed to be an entrepreneur. Not because they lack talent, but rather because they are not ready to face how much of their identity was outsourced to a pay stub and a work title

Indeed, depending on the geography, your question is structurally significant. People in Scandinavian countries with strong social safety nets don't panic. In the U.S., innovation is frequently a mask for desperation. Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia sometimes simply means survival

Whether entrepreneurship is a way out of the system or just the next step in being manipulated by it is a question that will never be fully answered. Are we creating or optimising our part in a new type of labour extraction, and this time self-imposed? Just because you’re your own boss doesn’t mean the economy isn’t still squeezing your margins. Sure, it is real. It’s raw. It’s honest. And more people need to do what you did, not just for the money, but for the meaning

[Wexnident]

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Hmmm, I reckon our country is actually one of the bad ones when it comes to worker benefits but I reckon I'd either be a solo business or just always be a, well, worker. I know it's a waste yeah but it just doesn't feel like something I'd want to do. I've always viewed myself as someone who just, well, follows. Not that I hate leading ofc, but I only like it WHEN I'm interested. I wouldn't want to start a business only to leave it hanging in the air man.

Might change in the future, though who knows? Might just need some catalyst, really or something. Still, good luck to you OP. I know stepping out of your comfort zone is usually the hardest step, so congrats!