You Shouldn’t Be An Entrepreneur

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What You'll Discover in this Episode:

• Maybe you shouldn't be an entrepreneur? This path might be different than what you think - and you could be worse off. 
• Your business won't survive without the people who work for you. How to avoid turning into the boss you ran away from? 
• The 2018 problem: are you a failure if you're not entrepreneurial? Can you "make it in life" if you never build your own business? 
• Find out if you want to become an entrepreneur for the right reasons, and what you can do if you already started a business but you hate it. 
• Do you have the most important personality traits to build your own business? Do you love stress, putting out fires, challenging yourself even if you fail all the time - or you prefer to do what you're passionate about and always be paid for it at the end of the month?
• The truth behind the "Four-Hour Workweek" and the "Do what you love" quotes.
• Having a shitty job is not your only alternative. Find out how you can enjoy the benefits of being an entrepreneur without having to become one.
• How to land a job you will love.
• How to give more value to the world than your previous employers if you decide to choose the entrepreneur life? 

Resources:

• The book that started the digital nomad movement: 4-hour Workweek by Tim Ferris
• Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Here's a quick test for you on Entrepreneur.com
• Why do so many entrepreneurs fall into depression? Are you sure your journey is worth having? How can you avoid long-term burnout? Listen to ep.34 of the ActiveGrowth podcast.
• Why you absolutely shouldn't be a startup, even if you decide to have your own business? That's what we discussed in our previous episode - and, as always, the alternatives.
• As an entrepreneur, you always face unexpected changes, problems and new regulations. Like the GDPR regulations from earlier this year that made us have to update all our products. 
• It's hard (if not impossible) to focus on one specific skill as an entrepreneur, and way too easy to always chase the next new thing. Listen to this episode for our advice to find the golden mean.
• Linchpin by Seth Godin is a great book on how to be more proactive, indispensable, give value and share your art with the world - no matter if you're an employee, an intrapreneur or an entrepreneur. 
• There's no excuse if you want to learn a new skill. Udemy and Skillshare are two amazing and fairly cheap resources, and you can find great tutorials for virtually anything on YouTube. 
• You don't want to be an employee, but you know you wouldn't enjoy the entrepreneur life either? Read the definition of intrapreneur - it might be the perfect golden mean for you! 

Screw the 9 to 5? 

Our goal with this episode wasn't to tell you which is better - working for yourself or working for someone else.

We wanted to give you a more accurate, expectations vs. reality type job description of being an entrepreneur, and make you aware that it's not always the best way to build your dream, have the freedom you want, make an impact, work from a hammock -  and all the other bullshit motivational speakers say to get you to join their MLM system.

Do you currently have a job, or you're working on your own business? Maybe both? Can you resonate with the points we made in this episode? 

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