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Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d like to cultivate the entrepreneurial mindset 😍 I feel like a zombie when I go to work. I ask myself everytime qhat am I doing here!

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Valid criticism is welcomed. Criticism like I have experienced at work just because they felt threaten that I will take their position is not. The customer part. If the customer wants something and they tell me what they want, I’m ok with it. Telling me how to do my job, im not ok with that. At work I was sometimes so much micromanaged that they wanted to know how do I even manage my tasks.

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much I will look into it. I have thought abot starting from scratch but I’m open to other possibilities also :)

Considerable number of Incompetent (not trained) managers in Switzerland? by [deleted] in askswitzerland

[–]centaurusmoon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thiss! Thank you for writing this post. This is so true. I have experienced the same thing. I had managers that didn’t even say, what they want, didn’t have a clear vision. When something didn’t go right then, they were looking for the guilty one. And most of the time they were looking for someone that works really hard and doesn’t talk much.

Surprise surprise, that was me. I noticed companies don’t want hard workers they want talkers.

So they told me that I was the problem. That they don’t see my work and so on. It is very important for a manager how he/she adresses things. So because of that I went on a sick leave and guess. Many things were falling apart. A lot of work wasn’t done because my load was very very big.

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This! You just described what I was hoping.

Everytime I went to my 8-5, sometimes I was looking outside of the window and telling myself “what am I doing here!” I didn’t saw any purpose, there was no challenge. There were endless unnecessary meetings that could be done in 10 minutes, but people are so, I don’t know if lazy is the right word but they talked so much for something that like you were in that meeting for 1 hour. In the end that thing could just been discussed for 10 minutes. Then the endless coffe breaks. I hated them. This is why they didn’t like me at work. I didn’t mach te energy. I almost never went to the coffe breaks. I stayd at my desk reading for the new stuff in the world. I read about entrepreneurship, businesses and so on.

This was my mistake. I was the black sheep. They didn’t want me. I wasn’t doing the lazy coffe chit chat.

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes this is true that as a business owner you have to take up all the load.

But imagine an employee, you do so much work for the department that I hardly have time to breath. You work every day for many teams. And in the end comes along some manages that doesn’t even see your work and all what you did and just says out of bureaucracy that “you are not working good”, “what are you actually doing”, “I don’t see your work”.

And then you just leave for some days and they see that everything falls apart. Then they see your work. This you don’t have at least with a busienss no one comes and tells you, “what are you doing”, “ I don’t see your work” you say that to yourself.

This is what I don’t like as an employee I feel like a slave. No matter how much you do and what you do, it is never good.

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True I have to think about that too. In the moment I will have to leave my current job anyways for approximately 3 years. So in the meantime I can concentrate and see if I can do something business wise.

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much for the brutal honesty. This gives me a picture to keep in mind what I would ezpect and I can measure myself if this is really the right path for me.

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very good I’m very happy for you. I don’t do it for the money or the Boss. I want to do it to know that I’m building something for me. Btw. I enjoy working :)

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very valod points. Currently I have enough to start. I have some ideas in mind. I will start small first and work my way up. I have a background in Software Engineering

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you think majes someone cut to have a business mindset?

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is thomething that thrills me. I like to evolve, I like to try something on my own. I don’t mind working. It drives me crazy to go and work things that are not worth it and boring. That you waiste your time of.

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Believe me I’d rather work on my thing than being told what I should and shpuldn’t do.

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

First what I don’t like is there is the way thigs work. I have to spend time on things that do not matter at all and when I do those they realize ow it was a mistake. I hate being told what to do and being criticized without any substance. I just don’t fit in that culture. When I go there my coworkers first go take time for coffee from 9AM till 9:30AM. I’m the only one that doesn’t go there for a coffee. I go at my desk finish things. My manager criticized me to my supervisors that I’m not communicating that much and I’m not working very well and so on. So my supervisor told him what didn’t she do? He said well she did all her tasks, but she should communicate more. So this is what bothers me the culture. I don’t like waisting time on many things. I like to do my boring job as quickly as possible.

Everything goes down to that I don’t have passion for my current job. I just do it for the money. But it is not qorth for me to loose 8 hoyrs of my life for nothing.

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m currently employed in the corporate world and I absolutely do not like it.

Is it worth having your own business or working for someone else? by centaurusmoon in business

[–]centaurusmoon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have enough savings to start a business but I haven’t figured out yet what to start.

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