Keep up the great work on the blog – I’m going to bookmark it!

However, there is always thrill & innovation coming out of you when you run a business. It does not happen when you have a routine job.  Running your own company is such a good learning experience that may not fetch you millions of dollars but, if you can stick on & bring some constant revenue to it, you’re gonna live a respected life and may have savings for your sons & even grandsons. This however, may not apply to a job where you’re more keen to spend all that you’ve earned by living a richer life style as your salary increases with few savings.

Like the author of this post wrote, not everyone can become an entrepreneur (or) businessman. It takes lot of effort, lot of mistakes(yes!) & lot of hard work to be a good entrepreneur. 

Mostly, the people owning a business fell into losses quickly due to their temperament & lack of self-belief / efforts. These guys generally move on to the next stages of life & start getting into jobs …without ever thinking of returning back to their business.

For people who stick on, its gonna take time based on the understanding of their business. It might take an year, couple of years (or) even more …but, they are gonna succeed as long as they don’t “repeat” the same mistakes and learn from their mistakes. As simple as that. Luck plays some role too in deciding when & if you’re gonna make the break even soon.

I own a business now (a real one–not Amway or something like that) and I like it too. I’ve liked some jobs I’ve worked and I’ve liked having a business.

But to say that having a business is always better than a job is a wrong statement. It’s better for some people…and just because some people have jobs that they like doesn’t make them less of a person than people who tried to start a business.

Just my thought…but read my counter-post…the link should be at the top of the post.

2. Steady income: Not only have thousands of people lost their jobs but even more have taken pay cuts. Again a person who works a job is only paid for the hours he/she works. What happens if that person becomes disabled? Owning a business with passive income would continue to provide manageable income without putting in the time and effort of a paid-by-hour job.

3. Work less hours: As proved by millions of small businesses throughout history, if you prospect correctly and build a team rather than doing everything on your own (which is self employment not business ownership by the way) you have a large work load shared by several individuals. This leaves you more time to spend doing other things of interest. In fact I closed a deal today without even leaving my house. So I made $500 while eating lunch with my mom and buying her flowers. I can live with that.

4. Fewer Headaches: You’ve got to be kidding me. Having some jack ass who thinks he’s Jesus tell me what to do, when to do it, what to say while I’m doing it, how to say it and what to wear while I’m doing and saying whatever he thinks I should? Then after I’ve complied he comes back and tells me what I’ve done wrong and that I’m not good enough and that I need to try harder is the biggest headache I’ve even had to deal with. Working a job, for somebody else’s success, is a horrible headache. Owning a business is doing something you love that others see as valuable. Sure there are complications, but not headaches.

5. Can’t lose your house: Sorry, Tony Cliffton is right. Tens of thousands of people lost their house. and thousands of those tens of thousands never made enough on a wage to build a savings as Juliet Austin pointed out. In fact, I have found that 61% of polled Americans said they don’t save enough, 68% said they would save more but lack the funds and overall 61% live pay check to paycheck (Yahoofinance.com 2010 & CNBC.com 2009). So when those 61% of americans lose their jobs they’ve lost their only source of income and therefore have lost all of their money.

So I ask you, who wouldn’t want to be a business owner if they could seeing as working a job is such a horrible solution to adequately sustaining their life?

Now I’m not naive enough to overlook the fact that it takes a special mindset to be a business owner, but this can be learned.

I’m also not saying that it’s a breeze, it’s very hard work and takes serious dedication.

But if you have the stones and the will power and the ambition to make your goals and dreams a reality you can do it and so can anyone else.

I was a job worker. I am now a business owner and I would never go back. You couldn’t pay me enough to go back.

I don’t mean to be rude so please don’t misunderstand me, but you’re wrong.

Creating a job is and always will be better than finding a job.
You’re time is worth more than your employer will ever be willing to pay.

Tens of thousands of Americans might disagree with the above assertion….

Nice post.

http://gearsandshifts.com/blog/2010/05/the-4-ho…

In a few sentences, here's my take on entrepreneurism: “Start-ups are teh new black. Or maybe they're more like a Prada purse. They cost a lot of money. they make the owner look good. And they're often full of shit.”