Ask HN: Have you been forced into entrepreneurship? How did you react?

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by phantom_oracle • 13 years ago

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Hello world (literally).

There isn't much detail to add here. I don't want to give any background stories.

You have probably been forced into entrepreneurship because:

lack of job growth no job opportunities Retrenched Unhirable (I'm thinking jack of all trades, master of none)

So if you were forced into being an entrepeneur, how did you react to your situation?

Any millionaire success stories?

notastartup• 13 years ago

I am in a similar situation although lately I have been forced to become a freelancer on the side as well.

I was forced into entrepreneurship for the same reasons cited. Being burnt out from past jobs and no longer being able to find work, where software developers were treated like laboureurs, ready to be tossed out at a moment's notice when they can no longer perform well due to the excruciating hours already exploited thanks to the political party who protect nurses and plumbers but not software developers who obviously can freely negotiate their wage in the free market that they keep fantasizing about and telling people so they can get the votes, that employers will not exploit the sparce job space in BC and that somehow raising the living cost is more important than retaining the tech industry which is slowly bleeding talent to other provinces or United States.

It's a shite state of affairs but I'm far from just giving up. I don't need to be holding a nine to five just to pay the bills. We developers have technical skills that needs to be treated with respsect and if one cannot find a fair open and free market without government interference, one must find it on the internet and rest of the world where it operates more efficiently.

chany2• 13 years ago

Depends on your current situation.

If you are a young professional, I think its a great step, because now you are really forced into doing/finding something you are passionate about. Or going to solve a problem you will develop a passion for.

I am currently in this situation. Didn't get a job after college. Because I prefer to be jack of all trades. This perspective helped me dive into something I really want to work on, the Enterprise space.

Now I am in a job with a big company. I am unfit because I think too entrepreneurial. But I am absorbing all the information here, and taking advantage of the position to learn about the enterprise.

I think its a calling for me to work harder, double up on developing my product on the weekend, after work.

phantom_oracle• 12 years ago

Being a jack of all trades seems to diminish the value of people like that.

Although I can understand it from a companies point of view, how many regular folks are even experts in their desired field that a jack of all trades couldn't match?

Ask HN: Have you been forced into entrepreneurship? How did you react?

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