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On-Again Off-Again Entrepreneur

By on April 7, 2005 in Ideas

Anita Campbell in Small Business Trends:

A trend I am seeing increasingly is what I dub the “on-again off-again entrepreneur.”

The on-again off-again entrepreneur is someone who moves back and forth between being employed and owning his or her own business — multiple times.

It’s not an either/or question: either being an entrepreneur your whole life, or being employed your whole life. More frequently these days, people are doing both at various times, moving in and out of entrepreneurship as the exigencies of earning a living force their hands.

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It may take several tries, and several bouts of corporate employment, before he gets it right. But the on-again off-again entrepreneur will keep trying.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://www.citrusinteractive.com Chris McMahon

    Describes me to a tee.

    Luckily I’m currently employed by someone who encourages my entrepreneurial bent even though I’m doing it by competing in the same industry.

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