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Jobs suck. At least the traditional version of a job, in which you do something you sorta hate, from 9-5p, and are paid for your time to just grit your teeth and do it. Let’s call this the “sell your time” version of a personal business model: You sell your time to an employer, and they pay you for that time.
Couldn't agree more. Life is too short not to make something you're passionate about. But even better, what I learned is that the true risk is not taking any. I discovered that not instantly but through a double step process:
- As a grad student at Stanford, I discovered that most of the successful entrepreneurs who came to speak in the insanely great entrepreneurship class of the Engineering School had failed. Not always of course but they had at some point. To someone who thought starting a business was like playing the lottery, this was a revelation and it completely changed my horizon.
- 15 years later when economic disaster struck and left a lot of people I knew jobless while they were supposed to be safe in good, solid, established companies.
Selling your time is perfectly respectful. But whether it's plan A or plan B is the real choice.