Re:Kay
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- Feb 12, 2019
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Hey folks,
need your thougts on a problem I stumbled upon last days.
Since I am finishing my bachleors degree I´m faced with this decision and dont really know what to do. Of couse I DO NOT expect you to solve this problem for me but rather give me another perspective since some of you might have been in the same positon along the way.
So how is it looking currently:
I am finishing a bechlors degree in business administration with mediocre grades, however from a very decent university so I expect to be able to find a job if I want to.
Financially I´m a bit in the red, since I had to finance my studies on my own, so starting capital for a physical startup first has to be aquired via VCs or other investors, since bootstrapping (without working first to aquire the money and pay back the loan) is not really an option. However there might be subsidies in my country which I could use aswell.
My thoughs on the topic with pros and cons:
Sales job like: Management Consulting, B2B sales, Key account management and so on.
pro:
learning sales seems to be the most important thing when it comes to starting a own business - and i would get paid for it.
opportunity to save money and pay back student loans
financial stability
cons:
little to no time to focus on own ideas
low effort 9 to 5: basically all kind of jobs that I would not want to do for my life, but that are not very hard
pro:
earning mediocre money
possibility to be a "Spy" and look for business opportunites within this company (even sell the solution for problems back to them or to competitors)
more energy left to work on side hussle
con:
most likely no real startup skill to find here (like sales e.g.)
direct startup:
pro:
many potential ideas that i could fieldtest and get feedback for
beeing not tight to authoritys of a job
starting the scaling earlier
gathering more experience
con:
little to no starting money availible and would have to make it work in 2 months (after graduation, since I have to study for exams until then)
what are your thoughts on my kind of thinking, and what have I might forgotten?
Interested to hear your thoughts
Bes wishes
Re:kay
need your thougts on a problem I stumbled upon last days.
Since I am finishing my bachleors degree I´m faced with this decision and dont really know what to do. Of couse I DO NOT expect you to solve this problem for me but rather give me another perspective since some of you might have been in the same positon along the way.
So how is it looking currently:
I am finishing a bechlors degree in business administration with mediocre grades, however from a very decent university so I expect to be able to find a job if I want to.
Financially I´m a bit in the red, since I had to finance my studies on my own, so starting capital for a physical startup first has to be aquired via VCs or other investors, since bootstrapping (without working first to aquire the money and pay back the loan) is not really an option. However there might be subsidies in my country which I could use aswell.
My thoughs on the topic with pros and cons:
Sales job like: Management Consulting, B2B sales, Key account management and so on.
pro:
learning sales seems to be the most important thing when it comes to starting a own business - and i would get paid for it.
opportunity to save money and pay back student loans
financial stability
cons:
little to no time to focus on own ideas
low effort 9 to 5: basically all kind of jobs that I would not want to do for my life, but that are not very hard
pro:
earning mediocre money
possibility to be a "Spy" and look for business opportunites within this company (even sell the solution for problems back to them or to competitors)
more energy left to work on side hussle
con:
most likely no real startup skill to find here (like sales e.g.)
direct startup:
pro:
many potential ideas that i could fieldtest and get feedback for
beeing not tight to authoritys of a job
starting the scaling earlier
gathering more experience
con:
little to no starting money availible and would have to make it work in 2 months (after graduation, since I have to study for exams until then)
what are your thoughts on my kind of thinking, and what have I might forgotten?
Interested to hear your thoughts
Bes wishes
Re:kay
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