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Why do so many of these "start your own business" nomads types have businesses that revolve around getting more people to start businesses? The author's business appears to be about monetising blogs. It's circular. Where's the value?
There a plenty of folks actually starting a business, and you either didn't click on their blog articles, or they didn't write a blog.
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Why should I incur the risk and time investment of founding a startup OR the culture at a FANG company, when I can thankfully avoid both and still be compensated really well and enjoy my work. It's not like there's only two options.
What exactly are you risking (or incurring) with regards to FANG culture? From my perspective it's all upside.
I'm all about creative expression as therapy, but please don't confuse it with a worldview you wish me to subscribe to.
My life so far. Early 20s: I can do anything and should start a company. Late 20s: imposter syndrome. 30s: wow, there is still so much I don't know. 40s: life is over and haven't accomplished anything, 50s: post menopause and confident as hell (now is time to start a company). Haven't gotten past 32 yet(lol) but many women are most confident in their mid 50s+ according to the science around hormones and how they impa…
Sure, if you want to be an insufferable net-negative for humanity. I'll grant that there's individual profit in it though.
When you succeed, let us all remember that it was Zack SHAPIRO who inspired you to break free from the ordeal of civility.
I'm dumbfounded users do this on Medium. And to think I wasted a free story on a feel good, self-congratulatory, 4 minute blog post that says little more than "Just Do It." Amusingly enough, the author's main product is a service to "make more money on Medium," and yet the landing page provides no information about the service, just a huge "Request Access" button.
Why do so many of these "start your own business" nomads types have businesses that revolve around getting more people to start businesses? The author's business appears to be about monetising blogs. It's circular. Where's the value?
But that is a self-selected population. There a plenty of folks actually starting a business, and you either didn't click on their blog articles, or they didn't write a blog.
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In a lot of places though you can have a good life, work 9-5, be well paid and not have to worry about all the headache that occurs from running a business. You might not end up a millionaire but you'll generally be better paid then a lot of people in your age / social bracket. A lot of people just don't want to make the sacrifices to run their own business!
If you’re a developer, and you work for a big company that gives stock options, you will almost certainly become a millionaire after 15-20 years if you don’t mismanage it. You’re far better off, on average, this way than if you work for startups. You’re also more likely to become a millionaire this way than starting a company, but your less likely to make hundreds of millions.