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Entrepreneur vs. Working Professionals

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Wudemaya

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My gf and I had a debate in regards of career. A little of our background, we?re in our late 20s and early 30. I?ve studied my way through college obtaining my degree and now working for the corporate America at a large company as a working professional in IT. She is currently working with a partner striving to make her living at a small mama & papa business buying and selling a product.
I told her there is nothing special about someone trying to become entrepreneur based on no education and has a nitch to sell a product that you may have a resource over your competitors. You don?t even need to speak English to make a living. And pinpoint the fact that it is not really a company but just self employment. Plus no special skill is needed. Where someone like myself studied our way out of college and made something with it as a professional.
I have a bad impression on entrepreneurs as a lot of show, all talk, no hard skilled people. Whereas working professionals are useful for their technical and managerial skills because they went through a higher education and learning from peers alike. Also entrepreneurs are more likely to take risks because they have their rich parents to fall back on or use family $$ to start a new. And therefore they call themselves tough shots fronting that they know own a business. There are exceptions where he/she took their education and attempt to make it on their own rather than working for someone.

Cliff:
GF and I had a debate
Me for working professional
Her for entrepreneur

Please discuss?.whats your take??
 
You are completely off base and very much in the wrong on this one. Anybody could be a corporate drone but few can work for themselves and make money at it, the risk scares them but the reward financially is much higher.

Will you eat your words when she's making twice what you do?
 
Originally posted by: Wudemaya
I told her there is nothing special about someone trying to become entrepreneur based on no education and has a nitch to sell a product that you may have a resource over your competitors. You don?t even need to speak English to make a living And pinpoint the fact that it is not really a company but just self employment. Plus no special skill is needed. Where someone like myself studied our way out of college and made something with it as a professional..
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Can't help myself. 😛

 
Originally posted by: Wudemaya
Also entrepreneurs are more likely to take risks because they have their rich parents to fall back on or use family $$ to start a new. And therefore they call themselves tough shots fronting that they know own a business. There are exceptions where he/she took their education and attempt to make it on their own rather than working for someone.

Please discuss?.whats your take??
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Based on the above, you're an idiot.

And this is your first post? What's your original username?
 
pics of gf

To get to your argument, you're thinking in way too broad of terms. You are stereotyping every single entrepreneur as being a misguided, uneducated snake oil salesman. Meanwhile, you're also saying that everyone who works for a large company must be well educated and very dedicated, when there are many of those people who do nothing but nef on forums all day... wait...

Entrepreneurs have things much harder. They must find all their own customers, manage all aspects of their own business, and use their own smarts to make money. On top of all that, people who are self-employed get dicked in the ass as a matter of course by our government, being forced to pay double for social security payments and they get no benefits paid by the company either.
 
i dont think there is anything inherently awesome about being an entrepreneur. IIRC, most businesses fail hard. Im not going to judge someone for being a corporate drone OR for doing their own thing. Different people are suited for different environments. perhaps the risk/reward is higher for starting something on your own, but there is also added stress. am i going to be jealous that you make 2x more than i do if you have to work 2x as much? probably not. regardless, really no reason to hate on either choice. hope you have comfy couch.
 
My take? You are wildly biased against entrepreneurs. You were likely sodomized as a small child by one, or perhaps one ran over your puppy.
 
You have no idea how much risk an entrepreneur has to take and get this. My parents started their own business and had no one to fall back on. If they failed, they would've wiped out their savings (investing in equipment, building, hiring workers). Tell me what you do at work that your job could screw you over that much.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
My take? You are wildly biased against entrepreneurs. You were likely sodomized as a small child by one, or perhaps one ran over your puppy.
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More likely small child entrepeneurs (probably from the lemonade stand) have been repeatedly sodomizing OP recently, causing rectal bleeding and trolling.

Edit: His GF probably watches and laughs.
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
pics of gf

To get to your argument, you're thinking in way too broad of terms. You are stereotyping every single entrepreneur as being a misguided, uneducated snake oil salesman. Meanwhile, you're also saying that everyone who works for a large company must be well educated and very dedicated, when there are many of those people who do nothing but nef on forums all day... wait...

Entrepreneurs have things much harder. They must find all their own customers, manage all aspects of their own business, and use their own smarts to make money. On top of all that, people who are self-employed get dicked in the ass as a matter of course by our government, being forced to pay double for social security payments and they get no benefits paid by the company either.
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A friend - http://davealburty.com/index.htm

Father-in-law - http://www.crystallakefisheries.com/

I can tell you that entrepreneurship is one of the hardest and also most potentially rewarding things you can possibly do. Both my friend Dave and my Father-in-law are some hard working guys and deserve a lot of respect for making their respective businesses work. Both are also extremely well educated (one's an Engineer and the other is a MBA and retired Lt. Colonel in the Army), both with books and life lessons learned.
 
Originally posted by: Wudemaya
My gf and I had a debate in regards of career. A little of our background, we?re in our late 20s and early 30. I?ve studied my way through college obtaining my degree and now working for the corporate America at a large company as a working professional in IT. She is currently working with a partner striving to make her living at a small mama & papa business buying and selling a product.
I told her there is nothing special about someone trying to become entrepreneur based on no education and has a nitch to sell a product that you may have a resource over your competitors. You don?t even need to speak English to make a living. And pinpoint the fact that it is not really a company but just self employment. Plus no special skill is needed. Where someone like myself studied our way out of college and made something with it as a professional.
I have a bad impression on entrepreneurs as a lot of show, all talk, no hard skilled people. Whereas working professionals are useful for their technical and managerial skills because they went through a higher education and learning from peers alike. Also entrepreneurs are more likely to take risks because they have their rich parents to fall back on or use family $$ to start a new. And therefore they call themselves tough shots fronting that they know own a business. There are exceptions where he/she took their education and attempt to make it on their own rather than working for someone.

Cliff:
GF and I had a debate
Me for working professional
Her for entrepreneur

Please discuss?.whats your take??
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entrepreneurs are people who take risks.

professionals don't.
 
Somewhere, at the top of the company you work for, is an entrepreneur. He owns a yacht. You do not own a yacht.
 
Originally posted by: TuxDave
You have no idea how much risk an entrepreneur has to take and get this. My parents started their own business and had no one to fall back on. If they failed, they would've wiped out their savings (investing in equipment, building, hiring workers). Tell me what you do at work that your job could screw you over that much.
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I do agree with you. I am generalizing to make a statement. I have owned my own business IT consulting for 4 years in the past managing 5 engineers with office space, I'm trying to make a point that there is nothing to brag about.
 
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