Entrepreneurship: It’s Not About the Money
When asked whether they would work for someone else if that job promised more money than they currently make, 59% of small-business owners said they’d turn that job down and continue with their own business, according to the monthly survey in June of 1,000 businesses with five or fewer employees. Still, 30% said they’d take that higher-paying job, and 11% said they weren’t sure.
When you factor in all of the time they spend working on their business, many small business entrepreneurs can end up well in excess of the typical forty hour work week of a traditional job, with a similar pay to what they’d have received as employees. So why do they do it?
So why do they do it? Is it because, for some, the idea of working for yourself is more powerful than almost any amount of money?
Is this true for you?
cassy on July 3rd, 2008 8:25 pm
Very true! I go with a job that i feels comfortable. Even if they pay me a small amount but as long as i like the job, i go for it.
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