Earning money nowadays is not as easy as in the old times. In fact, looking for jobs is harder for lots of average fresh graduates. Due to oversupply of workforce, the salary is not meant to be as they expect.
Therefore, we should be thinking of being entrepreneurs, being self-employed which also raises one's self confidence.
For some employees, although they are in a good management level, they are still fragile with the issue of getting fired or being placed in early retirement program by their company. When the company they are working for is in a bad financial situation, well…. it is always possible to lay off somebody to reduce cost.
An employee can be fired because of company’s financial issues, old age (think slower, not competitive anymore, while his/her salary is too high compared to a fresh graduate), and many other reasons that result in the word “fired”.
Being an employee can never be safe, because you depend on other people called “Boss”. It is not bad being an employee, but it is better if you have your own business. Maybe it is only a small business, but it is yours, you are the one who takes control.
It is very common to hear when we were kids, “Study hard, be diligent, get good grades in school and so on…... so that you can graduate and work in a great company that grant you good salary plus all the benefits you deserve” But do you see what I see? That lots of us (including me actually) were grown up to work for somebody else, to be employees. We are just looking for good paychecks and benefits…. Not a financial freedom opportunity.
Maybe it is a better idea if we work for somebody else to get enough work experiences, and after that we should think of working for ourselves, being an entrepreneur.
In social terms, being an entrepreneur will give you a chance to employ other people, meaning you can help them find employment.
There will be lots of thoughts to challenge you when you are thinking to become an entrepreneur. Such as, low self-confidence that makes you think that you cannot do it. You do not have enough skills, knowledge, experiences or money to start. It seems impossible to see yourself as an entrepreneur.
Please, try to think of bad days you and your precious family members have to deal with when you are fired or you just cannot work anymore for any reasons.
Those thoughts will give you the spirit to learn skills, knowledge, experiences needed to start your own business. You will have ideas where you can get enough capital to create a small business. You might also consider the idea to cooperate with somebody else who you know well to be your business partner.
Just think like an entrepreneur, that you cannot wait for somebody to think for you. You are the one who takes control, it is your life, and it is your business.
Put your future in good hands, your own ……………(Anonymous)
