Why Did You Become An Entrepreneur?

[Alan Mater]

Hey Evan,

I would fall within that 42% as I'm one who would rather be my own boss and not take orders from others. However, I guess the main reason would be is that I want to enjoy life and work on my own terms. The flexibility that being an entrepreneur brings is what I like most about it. Plus, it's best if you actually like what you do, and I couldn't be happier.

[GT Bulmer]

Here's an example of why I became a home based entrepreneur:

This past weekend, I completed my duties for a writing project for one of my clients and it feels great! The reason is because I chose to accept the project – it wasn't something I was obligated to do. And the nature of the writing was such that I got to read (and briefly write about) the personal and highly inspirational stories of nearly 400 individual achievers in a variety of professional fields. These were adult students, most with jobs and families, who studied evenings and weekends for a number of years to earn their university degree.

In my opinion, nothing uplifts a person more than inspirational stories of challenge and victory, and because I am an entrepreneur and can choose the work I do, I get to choose only the kind of work that encourages and inspires me, rather than the opposite.

Of course, payday is nice, too. ... How can you beat getting paid to do something you enjoy so much?

GT

[Alan Mater]

Here's an example of why I became a home based entrepreneur:

This past weekend, I completed my duties for a writing project for one of my clients and it feels great! The reason is because I chose to accept the project – it wasn't something I was obligated to do. And the nature of the writing was such that I got to read (and briefly write about) the personal and highly inspirational stories of nearly 400 individual achievers in a variety of professional fields. These were adult students, most with jobs and families, who studied evenings and weekends for a number of years to earn their university degree.

In my opinion, nothing uplifts a person more than inspirational stories of challenge and victory, and because I am an entrepreneur and can choose the work I do, I get to choose only the kind of work that encourages and inspires me, rather than the opposite.

Of course, payday is nice, too. ... How can you beat getting paid to do something you enjoy so much?

GT

Great example, GT! We must enjoy and love what we do, otherwise we wouldn't find joy in doing it.

I would much rather love what I do and live comfortably, than hate what I do and be rich.

[KH_Global]

Thanks for sharing. Yes, you are right.

Some become by conscious choice. eg. based on your strengths, freedom, and list goes on.
Some become accidentally because of various circumstances in life. Here is an example of http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jun/08/slide-show-1-from-50-paise-to-rs-2-lakh-a-day-success-story.htm

Thanks,
Robert

[ideasuniversity]

Yesterday, I was joking with my wife and I said "Nobody around here takes what I do seriously (writing and online marketing). They don't consider it to be 'work.'"

Then I thought about it for a moment ... and had to laugh when I said:

"You know what? I don't think it's work, either!"

(That's why I became an entrepreneur: I want to enjoy what I do and do it when I choose to do it.)

GT

Hi GT.
I forgot who said this. "Do what you love as a job and you will never work again in your life"

[Alan Mater]

Thanks for sharing. Yes, you are right.

Some become by conscious choice. eg. based on your strengths, freedom, and list goes on.
Some become accidentally because of various circumstances in life. Here is an example of http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jun/08/slide-show-1-from-50-paise-to-rs-2-lakh-a-day-success-story.htm

Thanks,
Robert

Thanks for the link, Robert. That was a very inspirational story.

[KH_Global]

Yes, Alan. These real stories will inspire others to think and act.

People really need a lot of life transformation stories in order to make their life towards achieving the dreams. In this process, some may turn into Entrepreneur.

Thanks

Robert

[MichelleJ]

Yesterday, I was joking with my wife and I said "Nobody around here takes what I do seriously (writing and online marketing). They don't consider it to be 'work.'"

Then I thought about it for a moment ... and had to laugh when I said:

"You know what? I don't think it's work, either!"

(That's why I became an entrepreneur: I want to enjoy what I do and do it when I choose to do it.)

GT

Hi GT.
I forgot who said this. "Do what you love as a job and you will never work again in your life"

Hi Yinka

That is so true. When you love what you do it never feels like work. GT I agree with what you have to say as well. Having the freedom and the ability to choose what you want to do is worth everything.

MichelleJ

[ThePromotionalGuy]

Hey Evan,

Why did I become an Entrepreneur?

No self-imposed limits from employers. As far back as I could remember I liked the idea of making as much money as I wanted to. Working as an employee I quickly learned I was giving more away in skills, than what I was being compensated for.

I once worked for a man who had a business and complained about how slow it was. I would repeatedly ask him to let me go out and simply distribute business cards. He didn't want me doing that. His explanation to me was, "I'm paying you to work at this location, not drive around handing out business cards." Or the times he would send me out to service a customer and he would advise me not to up sell the job.

[GT Bulmer]

... Why did I become an Entrepreneur? ... Working as an employee I quickly learned I was giving more away in skills, than what I was being compensated for.

This was a key factor for me, too. I decided if I was going to work that hard, why not do it for myself, doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it?

Of course, not every aspiring entrepreneur succeeds. Some do not have the ability to market themselves effectively, and many turn back to the world of employment before they have managed to get the experience and develop that ability.

But for any entrepreneur capable of taking the long view of things, the investment in themselves is worth it in the long run. Even if financially they are not a big success, there is value in the feeling of satisfaction that comes from taking the risk and "doing it my way."

GT

[KH_Global]

... Why did I become an Entrepreneur? ... Working as an employee I quickly learned I was giving more away in skills, than what I was being compensated for.

This was a key factor for me, too. I decided if I was going to work that hard, why not do it for myself, doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it?

Of course, not every aspiring entrepreneur succeeds. Some do not have the ability to market themselves effectively, and many turn back to the world of employment before they have managed to get the experience and develop that ability.

But for any entrepreneur capable of taking the long view of things, the investment in themselves is worth it in the long run. Even if financially they are not a big success, there is value in the feeling of satisfaction that comes from taking the risk and "doing it my way."

GT

I agree.

[Mal Tindle]

Hi members,

This is a great post by Evan and I am late getting on board but I thought I would ad my few cents worth, LOL.

I must say that wanting to be an Entrepreneur or work for myself has never ever meant that I wanted to have my own company, that has never been my motivation. My motivation has always been to work from home and be in control of my life, nothing else.

Just to be able to organise my life around working from home would be a dream come true for me and is something I am striving for. I have always been a fairly organised sort of person so the old trap of giving myself too much time off would probably work just the opposite for me. I would be so frightened of failure I would probably work too much.

There is an old saying which goes something like ’If you love what you do then you never do a days work in your life’. It is something like that anyway and for many of us, working from home would seem like that, it certainly would for me,

regards,

Mal.

[MichelleJ]

Hi Mal

I am with you on that point. I pretty much do work for myself from home although there are times when I need to go out to a client to work as I am a bookkeeper when I am not wearing my IM hat.

Working as I do for myself and getting paid by the hour I put in a lot more time than I ever did when working for a boss but the good thing is that it is totally my decision to do so.

MichelleJ

[GT Bulmer]

Working as I do for myself and getting paid by the hour I put in a lot more time than I ever did when working for a boss but the good thing is that it is totally my decision to do so.

MichelleJ

LOL, me too! I put in a lot more hours, but as Mal just said, if you love what you do, it's not work!

Not that there aren't frustrating times when things go wrong or take too long. But when you work from home and at your own pace, you know you can do whatever has to be done to get through the rough spots, and you don't have a boss cracking the whip and potentially causing you to commit quality errors while trying to please him or her.

GT

[unlimited22]

It was a natural choice to me. I enjoy being my own boss now and worked diligently for others prior. Now, I get to reap the rewards of my labor. There are no limits to how much you can grow and the income you can create once you get your stride. But mostly, I love the freedom.... Pricelsess.