Business vs the 9-5

So many entrepreneurs/marketers look down on the 9-5 job, they share it in their marketing in a way to glorify having their own online/business and that its the best thing ever.

There is some truth in it but there is also the flip side too.

Having your own business initially is a bigger sacrifice than you may realise. The first thing an aspiring business person does when leaving the 9-5 goes into a 24/7 job role because they end up working more than they originally did. They went from one role to now being the entire team lol.

Then there is the element of price and self-value. Most people go into it on a per hour bases charging at the rate they use to get paid in a job. This won’t work to sustain you as there are expenses that no one tells you about.

Now you have to market, generate leads, have conversations, pitch your service, sell your service, deep-dive, deliver the service, maintain and nurture the relationship whilst trying to get new clients and market and repeating the process over and over again. And if you have a family then I can imagine it being even more of a challenge with time management.

It can lead to burnout.

So then the business owner thinks about outsourcing. Now the challenge of managing the outsource and making sure the work is done, or then employing reliable stuff to help you grow. If that happens you have to increase your prices to mange the expanses as well as paying yourself.

If you manage to scale your business, grow a team and automate you then realised 5-10 years have gone by.

How much energy and effort needed. They say 95% of business fail within the first 5 years. And in most cases its because we didn’t realise the new skills we had to learn along the way, the new mindset we needed to adapt to and change the way we think from employed to employer….

Think about this for a minute doesn’t the 9-5 now feel much more appealing? You show up, do your bit and then go home. Isn’t routine sounding much much better than being ad-hoc?

There have been times when I wished I was back in the 9-5 but I love what I do so keep pushing to help subject matter experts go make that impact. And there are times I wish I as was doing nothing other then what I do lol #challenge

You see there are pros and cons to anything you do in life. By denying one side you loose the other. There is nothing wrong with the 9-5 or entrepreneurship its just a matter of choice and learning. But polarisation is what’s used in marketing to make things move in a pull or push way.

So the question becomes how are you being influenced?

Just because people are making noise (nothing wrong with this as we all need to market) is this making you want to do what they are doing because the perception created is all glory?
100k in 12 months sounds super and exciting and we all want in BUT how much of that was expenses, add spend, outsourcing, etc etc and how much did you take home?

You may realise that you just about managed to take home 24k… Oh wait isn’t that also the national average for an employed person in the UK?

If you have automation you may take home a lot more. But there are plenty of examples of people making much lower amounts but have taken home more than the people who are perceived to make making tons.

Don’t be under the illusion of easy work, no such thing, anything you do will require work, effort, energy and time.

SO stay focused on what you want to do and achieve, you don’t have to compare your life to anyone else as each journey and path is different. You can make anything work if you put your focus on it. But you can fail in business too or get sacked from a job.

The main point is the ability to learn and the willingness to learn and adapt the mind to what you choose to do. That’s on you to focus on and not compare with others.

If you have automation you may take home a lot more. But there are plenty of examples of people making much lower amounts but have taken home more than the people who are perceived to make making tons.
Don’t be under the illusion of easy work, no such thing, anything you do will require work, effort, energy and time.

SO stay focused on what you want to do and achieve, you don’t have to compare your life to anyone else as each journey and path is different. You can make anything work if you put you focus on it. But you can fail in business too or get sacked from a job.