socaldude
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MJ, thanks for this reply. I agree.
I'm going to be completely honest here: What I am really afraid of, is that in 5 years, I will not have a working business, and I will not have progressed my career.
I am afraid that I will be "left behind", that when all of my friends are either successful in their careers or in their businesses (I already have a few of them who have sold a business and earned a couple of million dollars each - I wrote about them in another post), I will be stuck in the same spot.
Realistically, I think it will be impossible for me to suddenly "give my career up" (at least right now and probably for the next 2-3 years), and that my best bet is to spend all my free time aside from work working on a business idea.
(At least this is what I'm thinking now. If I haven't made any progress in 3 months or so, I will have to revise this thinking.)
my two cents:
1. Its OK to have a job while working a Fastlane business BUT you are going to have to dump it to go full time.
2. It shouldn't take five years to know if a business is going to work out or not. The market will tell you if your product or service is worthy of their money. Either the consumers want it or they don't it shouldn't take a long a$$ time to figure that out.
3. STOP being "afraid of being left behind". Entrepreneurship is not a race. Who cares if your buddies make big money, it doesn't make them any better or superior. I would suggest to celebrate other people's success. Put a smile on your face next time you hear about some guy selling his business for millions, it will make it easier for you to move ahead in your journey to becoming successful TRUST ME. You are important and adequate regardless of your financial status.
I go to an event in orange county every saturday called: Cars and Coffee. and let me tell you. all these guys that have these exotics: lamborghinis, ferraris, porsche, bugatti. NOT ONE has a job. They are all in their 20s and 30s. Hell one of them was an attorney turned real estate developer working at a prestigious law firm making 150k straight from college and HE QUIT HIS JOB because he didn't "want to spend the rest of his life behind a desk". Many many many entrepreneurs quit high paying jobs to pursue self employment, i hope that makes you feel better.
Does this make sense: "i bought a lambo cause i got a great promotion" or "i bought a mansion cause i got a 3% raise equivalent to inflation" or "'i'm rich cause I clung to job security". NOPE IT DOESN'T.
This makes sense: "i bought a lambo cause i quit my damn job and worked my a$$ off to build a multi million dollar company that gives satisfied consumers what they want or need. I give them their moneys worth in the form of a product or service and they hand over the money which ends up in my bank account, and i do this on a massive scale."
REAL entrepreneurs don't care about "job security" or "Career development" or " bi-monthly pay check guarantee" or "promotions".