Does being good at your job have anything to do with being good at entrepreneurship?

[marcof_23]

Hey,

Right now, I work a menial, entry-level accounting job. Although I do the work very quickly, I make probably the highest amount of mistakes of anyone on my team. This makes me feel hopeless about my chances at Fastlane entrepreneurship because I remember my parents laughing at me when I said I wanted to be an entrepreneur straight out of high school and telling me, “you have to have a job first before you become an entrepreneur,” and also telling me “you have to master the bottom before you can get to the top,” and “you can’t just be a CEO tomorrow.” This still happens today when I tell them what I really want to do with my life.

Would it really make you a worse entrepreneur if you suck at your job? Does it really matter?

 

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[Kid]

I'm not sure why but your parents fed you with bullshit.

The thing you can do is not to listen to what they say or said and do your own thing.

 

[G-Man]

Hey,

Right now, I work a menial, entry-level accounting job. Although I do the work very quickly, I make probably the highest amount of mistakes of anyone on my team. This makes me feel hopeless about my chances at Fastlane entrepreneurship because I remember my parents laughing at me when I said I wanted to be an entrepreneur straight out of high school and telling me, “you have to have a job first before you become an entrepreneur,” and also telling me “you have to master the bottom before you can get to the top,” and “you can’t just be a CEO tomorrow.” This still happens today when I tell them what I really want to do with my life.

Would it really make you a worse entrepreneur if you suck at your job? Does it really matter?

Ultimately you have to follow your own compass, and I don't think its necessarily true that you need to master the bottom of anything. That said, I think many parents intuit, probably often correctly, that young people are drawn to entrepreneurship because they think it will be less work, or they have authority problems.

While you shouldnt go into crippling self criticism, honest self assessment is very important.

As someone who did corporate accounting for a long time, I know how soul crushing it can be.

Good luck.