victoriaa.onyiI read a post by someone on Facebook where he wrote “quit 9-5 jobs or die poor”. He insulted every employee.
He glamorized Entrepreneurship as if that should be everybody’s purpose on planet earth.
It’s either the poster is joking or close minded.
Some of the wealthiest people I know in the world aren’t Entrepreneurs. They’re employees. Examples are Sundar Pichai the CEO of Google and Sheryl Sandberg the Coo of Facebook to mention a few.
Although I used the example of top executives of a large public company to illustrate this point, the types of employees who have the potential to gain substantial wealth from their employment go well beyond the C-suite.
In fact, this includes a diverse range of job titles and functions, such as professional athletes, software engineers at private tech companies or early-stage startups, Medical Practitioners, managing directors and partners at investment banks, hedge funds, private equity firms, venture capital firms, and other types of investment firms, as well as senior partners at management consulting firms, just to name a few.
While it is true that most employees will not have the opportunity to amass wealth at a level commensurate with that of the job titles of employees named above, it still doesn’t mean they don’t feel fulfilled.
I love Entrepreneurship. It’s who I have always been. But I don’t preach that everyone must be one to be happy. If everyone is their own boss, who would work for whom?
No one is talking about the reality of how hard it is to run a business.
Please let’s be guided as glamorizing Entrepreneurship has lead to many preventable deaths and terminal diseases in this part of the world.
Not everyone is an Entrepreneur. Not everyone should be.
You would be way happy and live longer doing exactly what you enjoy doing.
Not only religion has the power to brain wash. Watch out for Some Entrepreneurship gospel preachers.
Coincidentally, my new book titled “Money Makeover” dealt with this misconception. Please stay tuned as it would be out soon!
