Your High Risk Job
Some people might consider starting a business in today’s economy riskier than dressing out in super hero garb and trying to save Metropolis. Some would even say starting a business is riskier than spending over $1Million on a comic book, which occurred yesterday in an Internet transaction.
Good thing most entrepreneurs would disagree. In spite of the long hours, the stress, the month-to-month juggling act when you’re just starting out, and you’re trying to focus on each task for at least ten solid minutes a day, so as not to leave any loose ends hanging; and you convince yourself you are making progress even though every step feels like a baby step in a fast and large world…in spite of the tough decisions you have to make about where to spend your next burst of income (if it ever comes)…whew! Even in spite of all these worries, the risk of not owning your own business seems trivial compared to the soul’s sacrifices when working a regular j-o-b.
By the way, if you’re just starting out (or just hanging in there), Charting Dreams’ coaching programs can help you make it through this exciting and exasperating time.
A discussion of entrepreneurs usually includes at least a cursory nod to the subject of “risk.” But in our interviews with small biz owners, to be honest, the word never comes up unless we (Sam and I), the interviewers, bring it up. Risk is relative. In many ways, “risk” (the way non-treps consider it) is a non-issue for the business people we talk with.
I’m guessing that’s because, for a lot of small biz owners, the risk of earning a living doing anything less than their own thing is unthinkable. All the hazards of owning a business seem like daisy-picking compared to the work-a-day tedium of pursuing someone else’s dream. Or it could just be that nobody would hire them wearing that spandex superhero outfit.
Thanks a million to the superheroes of the American economy, the small business owner.
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