Do you think you can run your own business and do whatever you want, do fun things, and work with the people you love? Then you are wrong.
Everyone has a part of their job they love. It could be communicating with people, selling on the phone or making beautiful spreadsheets and PPTs, everyone will have their own preferences. But on the contrary, the part that people hate at work is often an integral part of the job. The funny thing is, whenever people hear that I'm an entrepreneur, they think I can do all the fun things I want to do. But this is only part of the truth, not the complete truth. If you compare life to a movie, it's just the first frame in the trailer.
The truth is often this: Entrepreneurship forces entrepreneurs to do the things they least enjoy for a long time, and then give them a short period of time to do the things they deeply love.
We follow this pattern in the hope that one day, the careers we strive to create will allow us to spend more and more time on the things we love and less time on the things we don't.
- the thing i hate the most
As far as I'm concerned, the thing I hate the most is etching product photos. This tedious, repetitive task is as annoying as washing the dishes after meals. However, the benefit of this "have to" for entrepreneurs is that you have to learn all kinds of interesting skills whether you want to or not. Like me, I do hate etching photos, but I will.
- There's nothing wrong with doing things you hate
There are many benefits to doing things you are not interested in.
First of all, I can get a comprehensive understanding of the industry I work in. It's important to understand, because in case you want someone else to take your place, you have to have a general grasp of the other person's ability to work and what's going to happen next.
Second, you can avoid being scammed. If I've never etched a photo, I can't argue with someone charging me thousands of dollars for 10 pictures. Yet if I've ever been tormented by etching pictures, I'll know how much I'm willing to pay for this kind of work.
In the end, try something you hate and you'll know you probably don't hate it that much. Maybe you intuitively hate doing certain things, but when you do build your company, you have to keep doing the things you think you hate until you find someone who can do it better than you.
- employee misunderstanding
When I chat with some employees with stable monthly salaries, I am always amazed at the percentage of complaints in the conversation. These people hate their bosses, long commutes, constant phone calls, interacting with customers, products, meetings, coffee, tea, milk, and toilets. Nothing, nothing to hate. In fact, everything they hate is trivial and insignificant, it just happened to pass through their lives, and they just happened to hate it.
Quite the contrary, I rarely hear employees gushing about how much they love their jobs, even if they do. It's true that there are ups and downs emotionally at work, but in general, most entrepreneurs I've met are grateful for their day-to-day experiences. They don't go through the day without a brain and hope that tomorrow will be a little faster than today. They enjoy working for their "children" every day.
The analogy of entrepreneurship to raising children is a perfect fit. Although I don't have children, but from life experience, I think there are many similarities between these two things.
In the first few years, parents do a series of things they hate: wiping shit and urinating for their children casually, not getting enough sleep every day, feeling ups and downs, not knowing the needs of their children, spending a long time and a lot when something goes wrong energy to solve.
Let's take a look at the first few years of the entrepreneur's business: if nothing happened solve.
Do you understand now?
Entrepreneurship is full of chores, endless, so much that it will overwhelm you. But just when you were about to give up, your child suddenly called "Dad" for the first time in the babble, or learned to walk for the first time. At that moment, your two years of tears and sweat were momentary. The smoke disappeared.
Sometimes doing the things you hate is the only way to understand and appreciate the things you love.
We cannot give up the former and go straight to the latter. This is the real feeling of starting a business.