It took quite a few months to sit and write for my blog again. What I was doing by this time has less importance to really know; whereas it would not be a bad idea to share the experiences I have been collecting to write this post!
I have been a professional in the Indian IT industry for more than half a decade, and the life was not that colorful to keep on writing for others – with a purpose may be for marketing or for entertainment, if not solely for information. Well, sometimes you go are forced to go technical while you wanted to be creative.
Everyone is born entrepreneur
Someone told me that a young man has a father sleeping inside, whereas I believe that an entrepreneur sleeps inside every grown-up guy or a woman. Especially, when you are in a developing country like India and suddenly getting to be almost flashed out of your stereotype life by a gusty wind or wave of Narendra Modi spread ‘Make in India’ or the type of enthusiasm. You get your hand dirty – this time trying to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes dirty affairs are not that dirty - at least one of the detergent power in Indian FMCG market claim that "dag achhe he[to get some dirt on your clothing]"
Trying to place some eggs in multiple baskets
As I mentioned earlier, I have few eggs and want to keep them in different baskets; at least a few would survive the unfriendly tussles while I would be trying to dawn a new avatar of being an entrepreneur.
I should not say that I have failed or succeeded in my entrepreneur run and now sitting to share those sweet and sour feelings. I am here while I am in the midway of my journey to become an entrepreneur. I thought to share a few points that may help you to understand how tough it could be to become an entrepreneur when someone is still a working professional of any organization!
It is not cocoon but a nutshell
Below I have shared my own struggling situation to dawn the role of an entrepreneur, in other words, what situation as a professional I have faced in doing own business is shared in this blog post. Gone are the days when you happen to consider yourself inside the cocoon – break out the shell easily eating the protein/food inside the shell – now it’s more of staying inside a nutshell that is quite strong to creak from within – you may get yourself killed inside like the insect inside the walnut. Yes, the pesticide spread outside the walnut would not hit you directly, rather makes the shell harder and difficult to break from inside.
Lose your bread in hand to earn a piece of cake nearby
There should not be any doubt in an entrepreneur’s mind that he or she must invest maximum time possible to get things placed on the right track or planned path. It is one of the beginner’s mantra to climb the ladder of success.
Well, investing enough time in the entrepreneurial efforts could be a challenging option for someone who is earning his daily bread from servicing an organization. Your serving organization needs more output than the stipulated/tabulated time limits ask you to invest in. If you could not innovate or contribute differently to the role you are serving, your primary bread earning machine- job could be in trouble!
Getting confused!
Now, this makes you feel helpless and confused to choose between the new or the old source of earning. You could see that investing a few more hours in your new step towards a new professional role (an entrepreneurship) may take you to new heights. However, your existing job responsibility demands more time to keep its promise of delivering the piece of bread that eventually running the engine within you.
Is it tough enough to decide between bread and cake while you are hungry? A piece of cake would douse the burning appetite within and can satisfy your testbeds. However, you must walk a mile to get it. While walking a few steps, you could get a piece of bread. The decision is yours.
Lose some of the eggs collected for the winter season
Someone, who beings their career with an entrepreneurial effort, could gamble anything to reach the target. What about you who has been in a service and collecting (saving) some hard-earned money for the future in the form of bonds or deposits in bank cellar?
When you are on an entrepreneurial journey, capital is something you would ever need to make liquid as and when to pour in different cups to offer in a lookout to gain some returns. Well, you can never make it assured to get back the way you could from the banks or other money-making instruments.
Putting eggs into boiling water
Are you ready to risk eggs by putting it into the boiling water and see those eggs starting to bounce suddenly? You should be careful enough to strain them out at the right moment without burning your hands or broking them! Either you risk your earning to see a brighter future or brace yourself to lose a chunk of savings that could have made your future relaxing without stoning at the hive of the honeybees!
Losing patience before seeing the seed transform to sprout
Patience is a virtue my dear and you must keep it remembered until you have explored all the means and spent time waiting to the extent possible to become an entrepreneur. Can you remember those days of searching job and not losing your nerves while being rejected time and again? Well, this situation is nothing of any sort for an early bud into entrepreneurial fleet. But these do matter to someone in the midway of their professional career. They have some money to invest into something that brings quick results. Well, the time they do not see the immediate outcome from the investments; now people are habituated to an environment where their managers ask for quick results. They lose their will to stick to anything. People must stay ready giving some time to the seed to sprout.
The zigzag road ahead
When you are on an entrepreneur journey, the destination is fixed but the roads may keep turning - pass through the tunnels, take on the zigzag shape – ultimately, the roads take your time making you impatient to reach the destination. There may not be the ‘on time’ reaching situations. If you can have unlimited faith in God whom you have never seen to help you directly, why are you not ready to have patience on something done by yourself? You should wait for the possibility of seeing the fruit. There are possibilities of getting a positive outcome in higher proportion than getting answers to your prayers from God. If you believe that God is busy to fulfil the desire cum wish of someone’ else, your entrepreneurial efforts will also bring results provided you give it sometimes. You got to be ready to carry a certain amount of patience – are you?
I am not done yet
Well, I am amid my entrepreneurial journey, and have found these three major roadblocks that tried to prevent me; in fact, still pulling me from behind. Next time I come across other such obstacles, I promise to share them here. Till then wish you good luck if you are an entrepreneur or have thoughts in mind of trying to be one in future. Bye for Now see you sometime or some days later with something poking me to write here for sharing with my readers.
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