Why Do a Job Before Entrepreneurship?

Thinking about skipping the 9-to-5 and diving straight into entrepreneurship?

Hold up. Let me tell you why doing a job first might be the smartest move you make.

Entrepreneurship is on the rise these days. Research shows that more than 50% of the workforce despises their current jobs. A lot of them are struggling with schedules, low pay, paycheck to paycheck life and just scraping by in life. 

The ultimate solution out of this agonizing mess seems to be entrepreneurship. Just start your own business and become free in terms of money and time. Which is certainly true if you are an entrepreneur. 

But for most people who still haven’t entered the job market, entrepreneurship is the first stepping stone towards financial freedom. Now, that is totally fine, but there’s a slight context to it. Just hear me out. 

Being an entrepreneur is not all glittery shiny nomad life where you’re sipping soft drinks lying around the beach and working on your laptop. It’s far more than that. There’s a ton of hustle, smart work, and sleepless nights that go in for becoming a successful entrepreneur. 

You have to be mentally tough, resilient to challenges, hardworking, and open to rejection.  

A lot of people who enter the business world wanting to become an entrepreneur fail miserably in their attempt. Some of them make it through a few years, some months, and some cannot even go by a couple of weeks. 

But why does that happen? The simple answer is mindset. 

If you are planning on becoming an entrepreneur, you must work in a job first. Plus, if you are already in a job right now, the chances of you succeeding as an entrepreneur are significantly higher than somebody who dives straight in with no job experience. 

Want to know why? Here are the two biggest reasons. 

The first and foremost reason is that being in a job teaches you discipline and resilience. A lot of people hate waking up early in the morning and going to work every single day for five days a week. Sometimes even on the weekends. While this may seem tedious, it teaches you a great habit of discipline. Forming a routine and working for set hours each day affects your habits and character. 

You become better at maintaining discipline, even though it stems from the fear of losing your job. Moreover, a job teaches you resilience and makes you better at handling stress. Which is something that is a constant in entrepreneurship life for most of the time before you succeed. 

A job teaches you to be perseverant at what you do, creating and maintaining a schedule to manage your life, communication, and other relevant skills that help you succeed in life. 

Discipline. Routine. Resilience.

And that’s exactly what you’ll need when there’s no boss, no deadlines, no paycheck.

Just you and your business.

The next best part is You’re watching systems, marketing, operations, customer service, all in real time.

So basically, you’re literally getting paid to learn how to run a business before running your own. That’s definitely better than spending a lot of money on courses before you start your business. Plus, you can save up money while doing all this and before starting your business journey so you don’t end up soaking in a rainy day. 

If you are in a job right now and want to move to being an entrepreneur, you are definitely at the right place to start. 

So don’t be in such a rush to quit. 

Use your job as your training ground, and get paid to prepare.

So when it’s time to launch your business,

You’ll actually be ready to win.