Working for Yourself vs. Working for The Man: Which is Better?
People want to be in business for themselves the same way most people want to be in shape — they want the end result, but the process of getting there is far more painful than they’re willing to endure.
Take a look at this video:
In case you don’t know (I certainly didn’t), this is former UFC fighter and current businessman Dana White riffing on the misconceptions people have about what it’s like to run your own business instead of working for someone else.
I spend the first decade after college working for other people, from large corporations like Lockheed Martin down to small startups with fewer than ten people. And then I spent the ten years after that operating my own business.
So from my vantage point of having done both for a good chunk of time, which is better?
