10 Reasons Not To Become An Entrepreneur

10 reasonsnot to become an entrepreneur.
Tobias Ratschiller

#10: Because you will know that a printer costs $89.50.

#10: Because you will know that a printer costs $89.50.
In a startup, you are the admin person. That includes buying a printer. And the paper.

#9: Because you can’t forward irate customers to the support department.

You are the support department. And the marketing department. And everything else, too.
#9: Because you can’t forward irate customers to the support department.

#8: Because you are the type of person who wants to learn to swim before going to the water.

#8: Because you are the type of person who wants to learn to swim before going to the water.
Most of what you are doing in a startup is on unchartered territory. You swim, or you go under.

#7: Because you have three weeks of vacation as employee.

The word entrepreneur is close to Sanskrit anthaprerna, which means self motivation. In no language entrepreneur is related to vacation.
#7: Because you have three weeks of vacation as employee.

#6: Because you can’t blame somebody else.

#6: Because you can’t blame somebody else.
But everybody will blame you. :)

#5: Because you can take only so many roller coaster rides without wanting to puke.

#5: Because you can take only so many roller coaster rides without wanting to puke.
Maybe you want to get off, but they pull you back in.

#4: Because you won‘t have a lot of time for golf.

#4: Because you won‘t have a lot of time for golf.
Or anything else, really.
UK small business owners work on average 50 hours per week.
For startups it‘s closer to 60 hours.

#3: Because the odds are against you.

#3: Because the odds are against you.
Two thirds of startups fail.
Only two became Google and Facebook.

#2: Because your relationship will suffer.

#2: Because your relationship will suffer.
Unless you have the world’s best wife, like I do.

#1: Because you see the light at the of the tunnel only at the end of the tunnel.

#1: Because you see the light at the of the tunnel only at the end of the tunnel.
If the light is bright, it was all worth it.

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