Why Entrepreneurship is a great career path?
November 25th, 2007
In my previous post, The future belongs to…, I’ve written that entrepreneurship is a great career path. And I also predicted that, one of the categories of people, who will rule the future are entrepreneurs.
One of the readers of Adeologue sent me an email asking why do I think that entrepreneurship is a great career path. This post is to answer that question.
Frankly speaking, I’m not a successful full-time entrepreneur yet. I’m still a part-time and wanna-be full time entrepreneur working on very interesting and cool stuff. I’ll announce what it is when it’s the right time. So I’m answering this question based on my entrepreneurial efforts and activities so far. Hope you will find them useful and relevant.
For me, asking why to start a startup is like asking why to take the road less traveled? Seriously, almost every alternate person I talk to, wants to start his or her startup, but very few of them actually dare and work hard to do it. Certainly, entrepreneurship is a less traveled path. But if you know following quote, then you also know that that’s exactly what makes the difference — taking less traveled path.
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”. — Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
There are many reasons why you want to take a less traveled path. But I’ll answer the most valuable reason today.
The Experience Unlimited
Starting your own company and managing it to grow is an incredible way to gain experience and grow as a person. I think, in the early stage of your corporate career, it is very untypical that you will get very challenging and the cutting-edge work if you are working with big companies. Sure, some people do get challenging stuff, but I’m talking about generic pattern here. It’s also very unlikely that you will learn numerous other things, which are essential to develop your personality as a whole than your routine job skills.
On the other side, entrepreneurship is a combination of all the disciplines like technology, administration, human resource, legal, and business management. It’s about passion, confidence, learning, growing, and achieving. You can learn all these things by staying in the corporate world as well, but the core advantage of entrepreneurship is the rate at which you will acquire this knowledge and experience will be incredible.
I think learning lot of stuff and growing as a person at a rocket speed is a strong reason to seek entrepreneurship as a career option.
As I said, there are more reasons to start a startup, but I’ll answer remaining ones in future posts.
Have a challenging week ahead!
