FarahAideed:


Don't let anybody deceive you there is nothing special about being an entrepreneur than being and employee . I have have done both but been an entrepreneur longer and trust me there are days I wish I was an employee again because of the stress and damage entrepreneurship does to one from your social life , your love life ( if you have not carried your partner along) , the broken relationship with family members especially when you first leave paid employment to start your own gig .. there is no point in entrepreneurship where the uncertainty stop because once we conquer on problem we move to another bigger one .. Trust after really studying both roles I believe the employees have a better overall life at the end of the day because the entrepreneur is really just addicted to pain and dopamine he feels when he wins temporarily only to repeat the circle again . Next time take good look at Dangote and any bank MD and tell me who looks more relaxed and better looking skin wise ..

missCAPS:
I started my own business a couple of months ago and I bet entrepreneurship isn't as glamorous as these people pose it to be. It's veeeeery frustrating!

IamCharles123:


Coming from someone that's not even earning at all. Abeg i don't have time for dumb people this morning.

GoldPencil:
looool. alright bro. so my question you now is this. would you rather be dangote or a bank md. answer honestly. bear in mind that whichever God you worship is watching/ reading this nairaland thread.

pocohantas:
If you are a salary earner, you must be used to hearing these statements from people who are self-employed.

“Immediately after graduation, I vowed never to work for anyone”

“Salary is the token you are paid to forget your dreams”

“Ever since I made up my mind to start my own business, I have realized corporate work is just modern slavery”

“I am my own boss, I control my time”

“You can never get rich working for someone else”... etc

Business people won't allow someone rest. Are we in a competition? The goal is for everyone to earn a living. Why do some of them constantly try to remind us they are living the best life.

These same people have workers o. If we all become business owners, who will patronise the other and who will handle other sectors?

ZinoFasisi:


500k per month, Nice pay

abi na 36,000,000 per year?

Where he see d work 36million

you should be saying 237,600 to 6million

FarahAideed:


Don't let anybody deceive you there is nothing special about being an entrepreneur than being and employee . I have have done both but been an entrepreneur longer and trust me there are days I wish I was an employee again because of the stress and damage entrepreneurship does to one from your social life , your love life ( if you have not carried your partner along) , the broken relationship with family members especially when you first leave paid employment to start your own gig .. there is no point in entrepreneurship where the uncertainty stop because once we conquer on problem we move to another bigger one .. Trust after really studying both roles I believe the employees have a better overall life at the end of the day because the entrepreneur is really just addicted to pain and dopamine he feels when he wins temporarily only to repeat the circle again . Next time take good look at Dangote and any bank MD and tell me who looks more relaxed and better looking skin wise ..

Royalfurnitures:
Some of them won't tell you they had rich family that sponsored them but talk as if they are smarter than some people that are not privileged like them


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Hedonisco:
Devising your own means to earn a living isn't easy at all. You're not yet a (complete) man if you don't know how to make money on your own without depending on the safety/comfort zone of paid employment.

Worst of all these redundant civil servants who only know how to leech off the system without adding any value.

FarahAideed:


I am a die hard entrepreneur and all I am saying if you are not built for this stay away because it's very very stressful and the end of the day there is no overall difference in the moments both parties can afford

pocohantas:


Why can't I get comfortable in my job? Is it your comfortable? Why should a problem lie there?

The Western countries Nigerians are running in mass to; majority don't go there with the hope of trading (this is the definition of entrepreneurship in Nigeria). They go there to do same 9-5, sometimes a less professional one, all to survive.

This means the problem was never the 9-5, but the system, system being the country.

If you can be comfortable with your business despite growing competition and difficulty in doing business which has led to the death of so many businesses in Nigeria. Why should I not be comfortable in my job.

When your business has issues, you blame the government for making it hard for you (and expect me to sympathise with you), BUT when I lose my job- you blame me for being a comfortable salary earner.

Forgetting it is the same system fcking us all, just different styles and orifices.

I am sure there are many 9-5 that your entrepreneurship would never be IMPORTANTER than and vice versa.

Different strokes...

franchasng:
You are more than correct with the parts in bold.


But very wrong with the parts in red font, and you know why I will explain in details below, the reason why entrepreneurs have the last laugh.

No matter where you work or which company or organization you are working for, you cannot work beyond 70yrs at most, and imagine at 70, you stopped working, and assuming you married late or gave birth late, maybe at age 40, that means your first child is probably 30, others below 30 and probably still in higher institution and you have stopped working.

No matter the level you retired at, your pension stipend cannot take care of you, your family and children's education if you don't have a business to support. And most businesses started after retirement usually don't succeed because they didn't study the market and haven't mastered the art of the business, they just used their gratuity or savings to startup a business based on hearsay that so so and so business is moving well, and some venture into it and lose all their life savings.

If you decide to stay idel after retirement, you are likely going to develop various sickness and be spending most of your life at the hospital bed, and will possibly die before your time.


Now, on the flip side, entrepreneurs already have a thriving business they have struggled to build while growing when their mates were working 9-5 job and enjoying their extra time and having lots of fun with their family and loved ones when the entrepreneur was busy slugging it out to make his or her business have a stronghold.

The entrepreneur have no retirement age unless he decides to retire himself and hire managers or let his children take over while he supervises, which means, his children will not be struggling to find job to start their life with, because they already have a job in their father's or mother's business to start life from at least....while the salary earner's children are busy looking for job to get started, just imagine how difficult it is today for graduates to secure a job, then think of 20 - 30 years from today, do you think there will even be jobs for graduates whose family does not have a job to offer or whose family is not highly connected politically and otherwise Think about this.



I like using myself and people I know as example....

I have 2 family friends I will use as example for you to drive home my point.

The first family friend, i won't mention his name, he was my dad's close friend (my dad senior him though), he retired as a director or a federal ministry, i think level 18 or so...he was a really big man then....but he gave birth a bit late, so some of his kids are still in university now, and the man is freelancing now as an auditor for private firms at 70yrs+, just to raise cash to support his family and kids still in school....and his first son that served since 3 years now, only managed to secure a small pay job not long ago, the daughter is still job hunting as we speak despite her good result.


Now, there is this second family friend, he was a business man then.....he also married late, this man's first son is now the MD of his business, the boy took over the business as soon as he graduated, so he did his NYSC at his father's business...now his father has retired, the guy now runs the business and the boy has taken his father's business to the next level that this business is now booming like kilode....he pays his father 500k monthly, and pays his mom 250k from his father's business....the business has grown so big that most of us now use it as example.

One of his younger sibling that just graduated is now employed there for the mean time while waiting for NYSC. Imagine if their dad didn't had that business

Cases like this abound all over Nigeria.

Vincad:





Monthly and like I said I read it, I am not the one. I read it when a blogger asked for submissions on how people got their first million. I believe him because of the course he said he studied and I know that it is possible for people with that degree in the right company. You can choose to believe or not I don't care, after all it won't add any millions to my own account.

Homeboiy:
How much una dey collect per month

U ft siddon spend 30-50k on drinks only on sundays

That's why

Josade4:
Both is key...
If you work for salary... Congrats, but be wise.
Have a biz aside.

If you have a biz...congrats, if a salary job will serve as a boost on the sidelines, Take it.

They both have their pros and cons.

pocohantas:


Why can't I get comfortable in my job? Is it your comfortable? Why should a problem lie there?

The Western countries Nigerians are running in mass to; majority don't go there with the hope of trading (this is the definition of entrepreneurship in Nigeria). They go there to do same 9-5, sometimes a less professional one, all to survive.

This means the problem was never the 9-5, but the system, system being the country.

If you can be comfortable with your business despite growing competition and difficulty in doing business which has led to the death of so many businesses in Nigeria. Why should I not be comfortable in my job.

When your business has issues, you blame the government for making it hard for you (and expect me to sympathise with you), BUT when I lose my job- you blame me for being a comfortable salary earner.

Forgetting it is the same system fcking us all, just different styles and orifices.

I am sure there are many 9-5 that your entrepreneurship would never be IMPORTANTER than and vice versa.

Different strokes...

franchasng:
You are more than correct with the parts in bold.


But very wrong with the parts in red font, and you know why I will explain in details below, the reason why entrepreneurs have the last laugh.

No matter where you work or which company or organization you are working for, you cannot work beyond 70yrs at most, and imagine at 70, you stopped working...

missimelda01:
Doing a 9-5 isn't the problem, the way some people get comfortable with it is where the problem lies. The advantages of being an entrepreneur are numerous, I don't think anyone would like to do a 9-5 till death but that doesn't change the fact that a 9-5 is necessary sometimes to source for capital. So I think a 9-5 is important, while being an entrepreneur is importanter

BTW is it 9-5 lagos? Most private companies no Sabi this one o, they would use work to kill their staffs

SendoSendal:
But an entrepreneur created the 9-5 job you are doing. You also owe it to the generation coming to create their 9-5 jobs.

passionstores:
Working 9 to 5 is just corporate slavery to enrich another man's business no matter how you look at it
Being an Entrepreneur, not an easy feat, is to free yourself from that "corporate slavery" and be in charge of your life

So it's a turn off

Homeboiy:
How much una dey collect per month

U ft siddon spend 30-50k on drinks only on sundays

That's why

Aaronbee7:
Nice submission! I wanted skipping it because it's too long but every line is worth reading. I hope everyone read this and think twice. Thank you

OyinO:
Whether you like it or yes, self employment through businesses is far better and greater than 9-5. You can't compare it. However, entrepreneurs saying all those things are simply trying to let you know that the 9-5 is a viscious cycle of poverty. The way they say it should not matter to you. There's a message they are passing to you. Grab the message and ignore the mess. For behind every mess, there's a message.

ImaIma1:


No one is importanter. Abi let all your workers resign and become entrepreneurs so that you can entrepreneur your business alone na.

Many people doing 9-5...their pension fund alone can buy the business that one entrepreneur is making noise about. People have different dreams and goals in life. Not everyone will run a business.

ImaIma1:


No one is importanter. Abi let all your workers resign and become entrepreneurs so that you can entrepreneur your business alone na.

Many people doing 9-5...their pension fund alone can buy the business that one entrepreneur is making noise about. People have different dreams and goals in life. Not everyone will run a business.