Entrepreneurs: Don't Quit Your Day Job

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by donna • 19 years ago

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ivan• 19 years ago

I agree, especially when you're responsible for other people like wife or children.

danielha• 19 years ago

His anecdote has nothing to do with entrepreneurs nor does it boil down down to "Keep your day job."

It's more like Everyone: don't be irresponsible.

jimbokun• 19 years ago

If you have a wife and/or family, keeping the day job can very well be the most responsible thing to do.

keiretsu2• 19 years ago

then start one BEFORE you get married

comatose_kid• 19 years ago

Life doesn't always happen in the 'ideal' order...

What if you do start before you are married and aren't successful? I know of people who became successful only after their 10th failed company....

trajan• 19 years ago

"Entrepreneurs: Use Birth Control."

far33d2• 19 years ago

That assumes that your first company is the only one you'll ever do.

reelman• 19 years ago

who is this guy? what company did he start?

tracksuitceo2• 19 years ago

Hey Reelman, I'm the TrackSuit CEO, the first company I started is EmployeeInsider, an online job rating forum for all industries. I'll write more about it later (tomorrow?). I've since run several businesses. I do SEO contracting and most recently I've done marketing through one of my companies for ridester.com Thanks for the comment!

tracksuitceo2• 19 years ago

Hey Donna, Thank you for the submission!

donna• 19 years ago

my pleasure! ;-D

erdos22• 19 years ago

I had a jaw deformity, which didn't get corrected until I was an adult. (Had I not been so socially withdrawn, I might have gone to a better school when I was younger.) By the time my condition was treated, years past the time most of my peers would have started families, it was too late: I had become used to having time to work on my own projects, and having to get up every day to do the kind of unfulfilling work fathers typically have to do to provide for a family would have been intollerable. I was spared.

lupin_sansei• 19 years ago

That's sad about the jaw. But you know having a family, for me at least, is what fulfils me - not my job. (Which I actually like)

far33d2• 19 years ago

Yah seriously. Sure, some fathers have sucky jobs they keep because of their families. But work and family aren't mutually exclusive.

Entrepreneurs: Don't Quit Your Day Job

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