Comments on: Entrepreneur: Insecure Avoidance?

By: Solo Entrepreneurs Are Languishing in Purgatory | Rules Optional

Solo Entrepreneurs Are Languishing in Purgatory | Rules Optional — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:16:47 +0000

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By: Andrew Caldwell

Andrew Caldwell — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:02:52 +0000

Definitely to avoid all of the corporate fluff and bullshit! So unecessary. Although it was a lot easier to waste company time checking out blogs than my own!Went into the city the other day, shorts, t, thongs, was getting stared up and down by corporates like i'd stepped on poo! Admin girls, clerks, anyone. They should be having a red hot look at themselves!About the 'avoiding public failure – being an entreprenuer', this sort of rings true if you're doing it in secret, just wish i hadn't made the fatal error of announcing it to the world on a website!Keep the posts coming Andrew

By: Andrew MacPherson

Andrew MacPherson — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:07:19 +0000

I love hearing others' perspectives and experiences. The part about succeeding in whittling your job down to 3-10 hours, but still hating it is a great insight. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who think replicating your process and working that much less would cure all of their problems. For some, it might, but when you add the counterpoint about having seemingly boundless energy working way more hours, another dimension arises. For you, it seems like creativity has a lot to do with it. That's probably true for a lot of other people too. Unfortunately, many never find out because capital 'C' Creativity is framed as a rare achievement only available to a select few.This kind of feedback and sharing of similar experience is invaluable. Thank you so much for the contribution.

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By: Brandon W.

Brandon W. — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:11:09 +0000

Many of the things you write about yourself ring true for me, as well. I have no tolerance for tedious bullshit. In my last job, I was paid 40 hours a week to do 3 hours worth of crap that was assigned to me, which were things that the assignor should have just done for themselves in the first place. Many things took longer for them to assign to me than it would have taken for them to do themselves, in the first place. I figured out ways to do things more efficiently so that I really only needed 3 hours a week to do the job. But this is how I feel about most jobs; and I've re-designed every job I've ever had into 3-10 hr workweeks (for which I was paid 40). Sounds nice, but it's fucking torture. It's like being in a prison cell for the remaining 37 hours of the week. Not to mention being required to drag ass up at 6am to be at a desk by 8am. And that's how I feel about jobs. Most people are unnecessary, and those that are necessary are disasterously inefficient about it.This isn't to say I won't work hard when necessary. When working in television I'd sometimes put in 84 hour weeks and enjoy it. As a full-time professional photographer I'd put in 14 hour days with few breaks and still be energized at 10pm. It's just that so much “work” is unnecessary, tedious bullshit. And I don't want to do it anymore.When I was young, I wanted to be an optometrist and have my own office. When I was in high school I wanted to be an independent day trader. I went to college and decided I'd much rather be a television producer and head up my own creations. I fell in love with the creative aspects of lighting, went to do that in television and extended it into photography. I've never had any aspiration to work for someone else, have the (theoretically) “secure” job. I went back to college and studied business and marketing; not because I wanted to work for anyone, but because I wanted to understand business processes, market identification, and promotion. I went on to do a Master's degree – mostly for myself, not anyone else – and what did I do my thesis on? Entrepreneurship. It's just in my blood. I don't have it in me to be a robot in someone else's machine (and especially not a pointless robot). I want to build the machines.