I doubt it would do much harm to your career unless your business ends up facilitating child molestation at scale or something and that’s what you see when you Google the name of the business.
But, the fact that you’ve been thinking about it for 10 years; are asking for permission from a group of strangers; and are already thinking about an exit plan before you’ve even started the business suggests that entrepreneurship may not be for you.
It will obviously be a higher risk proposition than working for someone else. If not having a big brand name on your resume for a few years sounds scary to you, trust me, that will be the least of your worries.
This, but I would not be dismissive towards him. Let’s not say that entrepreneurs know how to take risk, and straight up admit that some entrepreneurs are often reckless. For me, it was because I was a cultural misfit in companies. So I didn’t have a choice and nothing to lose. Getting paid 1100€ per month for 3 years? I loved that. Compared to being bullied in a corporate.
So yes, some category of us tend to underthink things a tad too much, and sometimes tend to be in the right spot by chance. It’s not grit. It’s just because we didn’t have a choice.
So maybe he still has a profile of entrepreneurship even if he’s risk adverse. Just, another kind of entrepreneurship.
But for him, if he’s comfortable as an employee, please stay there. Entrepreneurship is romanticized quite a lot.
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I doubt it would do much harm to your career unless your business ends up facilitating child molestation at scale or something and that’s what you see when you Google the name of the business.
But, the fact that you’ve been thinking about it for 10 years; are asking for permission from a group of strangers; and are already thinking about an exit plan before you’ve even started the business suggests that entrepreneurship may not be for you.
It will obviously be a higher risk proposition than working for someone else. If not having a big brand name on your resume for a few years sounds scary to you, trust me, that will be the least of your worries.
This, but I would not be dismissive towards him. Let’s not say that entrepreneurs know how to take risk, and straight up admit that some entrepreneurs are often reckless. For me, it was because I was a cultural misfit in companies. So I didn’t have a choice and nothing to lose. Getting paid 1100€ per month for 3 years? I loved that. Compared to being bullied in a corporate.
So yes, some category of us tend to underthink things a tad too much, and sometimes tend to be in the right spot by chance. It’s not grit. It’s just because we didn’t have a choice.
So maybe he still has a profile of entrepreneurship even if he’s risk adverse. Just, another kind of entrepreneurship.
But for him, if he’s comfortable as an employee, please stay there. Entrepreneurship is romanticized quite a lot.