Wearing The Boss’s Pants: The Shift From Employee To Entrepreneur

Being a 9 to 5er is not a popular idea of fun.  The word entrepreneur is flashy and exciting.  Working for yourself has great appeal because you no longer report to a boss (or several bosses), you aren’t stuck with their schedule and best of all you aren’t worried about downsizing, or worse the business closing.

Making the change to becoming an entrepreneur is an easy choice.  We can quickly call ourselves an entrepreneur.  Then we have to choose what we are going to do.  Do you have a skill that you can market to the world?  Or have you found a company that you can utilize as a platform to launch your entrepreneurship.  Then comes the hard part.  You know what you are going to do.  But now you have to do it.

There is an element of fear that holds all of us from taking action.  This is where you can insert a cliché about the cream rising to the top, or sorting out the tire kickers, or you name it.

You have to mentally move from your years of training and “brainwashing” as an employee and erase all of that type of thinking.  Not getting past this obstacle is the number one reason for failure.

Working as an employee is easy. Your hours are set for you.  Someone else assigns your tasks.  Sometimes these tasks are even scheduled in your day for you.  It’s a model of work that you plug into, expectations are set for you, and all you have to do is perform and produce results.

Working as an entrepreneur is difficult. You call the shots, you set the hours, and you outline the tasks and their schedule.  You are now swimming in a wave of options without a life preserver.  All those flashy thoughts of freedom aren’t so exciting anymore, they become a little frightening.

You are at a point where you answer to no one but yourself.  Being your own boss takes self discipline.  Ask yourself this: When your boss asked you do something by a deadline, did you make arrangements and sacrifices to get it done?  Did you do it out of fear of losing your job?  To keep from getting fired? To gain a raise?

These same thoughts you had towards your boss now need to be applied to yourself.  Are you worth the same respect your boss was worth?  Will you sacrifice to get work done for yourself?  Will you make other arrangements?  Will you work to keep your business?  Will you work to earn the money you are worth?

What if you worked as hard for yourself as you worked for your boss?  You can take your prior work ethic and apply it to working for yourself.  What were you willing to do for your paycheck?  What now are you willing to do for your own wealth?

You once worked hard for someone else, now you must work hard for yourself.  If someone else was worthy of your efforts, surely you are even more worthy.

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