Related, corporate jobs have as much embedded career risk as entrepreneurship, and maybe more. Boss doesn’t like you, company merges, you’re not good at politics, etc. Any, and more, can be career killers. Founders answer to the markets/their customers Which risk is greater?https://twitter.com/PinkPoloShorts/status/1231584115906023425 …
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Yeah, so maybe it’s less about risk and more about the game people want to play in life? Go versus chess versus checkers = Founder versus SMB owner/op versus BigCo employee
I'm not sure. Some thoughts about it: 1. People don't know that there's an alternative to big co wage slavery 2. People confuse volatility with risk of ruin 3. We have a natural tendency to order ourselves into structures, entrepreneurship doesn't fit neatly into one.
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Good point but that’s from your/my perspective, I found. They don’t look at it as wage slavery. They see themselves as doing what they’re meant to do and playing the narrow “game” they like to play! (This realization in my 20s is why I knew I had to get out of BigCo ASAP!)
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Agreed. I had the same realization very early in my 20s. I got fired (not laid off, but fired.). I figured it would keep happening and I thought that the skills needed to succeed in a traditional role were not my strong points, so I took the plunge into the unknown. Glad I did.
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