They assumed I’d look for another job, not become an entrepreneur!
It’s been about 3 weeks since I left my corporate job in pursuit of my entrepreneurial dream and it just occurred to me that many of the individuals that I spoke with about my departure assumed that I would be looking for another job. The comments were all similar:
“I understand that you want more time with your family. Getting a good government job will probably be a good thing.”
“If you need me to introduce you to someone who may be looking for someone with your skill set, just let me know.”
“This is not necessarily the best economic climate to be looking for a job.”
All of these individuals do not understand - and perhaps they never will - that the job I left is the last job I will ever have as far as I’m concerned. I suppose that some people just cannot understand how someone could leave a perfectly good job (or jump from a perfectly good airplane). It’s like the saying goes, “If I have to explain it, you just wouldn’t understand.”
There is so much opportunity “out there” and I intend to get my “piece of the pie”. As this point in my life/career I consider myself to be unemployable. The notion to become an entrepreneur has been with me for many years and I have nurtured it over the years by doing “on the side”. But I’ve chosen to play full out and there is no turning back.
I choose to have an attitude of “prosperity consciousness” instead of one of poverty; I choose to see the glass as half full with a huge 10 gallon pitcher next to it; I choose to walk a path that many others would not dare. I have chosen as my mantra the words penned by one great man in his autobiography, “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass”:
“I prefer to be true to myself even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false and incur my own abhorrence.”
Until next time,
Dino
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