Would you rather be an entrepreneur, doing what you love but not making much money or would you rather work for someone doing something you hate but making a lot of money?
I asked this question on Instagram today.
Pretty much everyone who responded said that they would rather be an entrepreneur. The money doesn’t really matter when it comes to peace and the freedom of being your own boss.
So what are people to do when they want to be entrepreneurs but happen to really hate what they do for a living? First of all, I can definitely relate to feeling like this. Working a job you hate can cause you to feel depressed, stressed, and a shitty mess — no matter how much it pays.
Let’s look at how that job you hate is really affecting your life, and again, I have first hand experience with this topic.
You’re probably not giving the job your all. You probably go to work and half ass it just enough to keep getting a paycheck. Your password to everything at work is “IHateThisJob” and your favorite saying at work is “I don’t get paid to do that”. You just don’t care. That’s really not fair to you and it’s not fair to your employer — although I doubt that really matters that much to you.
That IDGAF attitude you have at work carries over to other areas of your life. Your interactions with your loved ones can suffer because you’re irritable and emotionally drained. Your physical health has probably been neglected too, because you’re just not motivated.
You don’t feel like you are living life to the fullest, and you get so accustomed to going to a job that you hate every day that you forget life isn’t supposed to be lived like that. You begin to accept broken as normal. You live with regrets and that becomes perfectly fine with you.
As long as you’re on that job, you’re selling yourself short. The one thing you have control over in life — your happiness — you’ve relinquished to someone or something else.
It’s time to get it back.
You have to take your life and your happiness back from that job that’s eating you up inside. Stop just accepting it as part of your life, because it’s not. You have as much of what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur as anyone else. You just have to take action and be diligent in pursuing the business you want.
Now, don’t get it twisted. I’m definitely not telling you to quit your job to start your business. Don’t do that unless you have a solid plan, the financial means to do so, and you are motivated to get out there and get it no matter what. If you’re not there yet, then you need to keep your day job and start your business as a side hustle until you have everything in place to quit your job.
What I am saying though is that life is too short to spend it doing things you hate day in and day out. Take what you’ve learned from working that job you hate and apply it in business. Then work your business as a side hustle until you can quit that ugly ass job and make your business your main hustle.