Is Entrepreneurship GREATER THAN the 9 to 5 Corporate Job?

Is Entrepreneurship GREATER THAN the 9 to 5 Corporate Job?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what I love about being part of a
startup and entrepreneurial community. I love the questions that we
get sometimes. And here's a question that I just want
to touch on by one of our community members. Here
we go, he said, can you give your opinion on
the topic of many young new generation and entrew procurious

(00:24):
that have a mindset that they are not built for
the nine to five job and they want to do business.
They get inspired by influencers on social media and starting
to hate the nine to five and think that those
who do nine to five are inferior to them. But
usually these people never get any action, and they don't
have a plan, and they actually think they're going to

(00:45):
achieve something. Brother, say less, you got it. You see,
the nine to five is not a problem. The nine
to five is merely a timebox. That's all it is.
That's all it is. The nine to five is a
focus time box in which someone is working for the

(01:06):
purpose of receiving monetary compensation for their time in that
time box. That's all it is. If people have issues
with the nine to five the corporate job, per se,
they have a problem with their ego. It's an ego issue.
The difference though, and I think this is where we

(01:28):
need to move immediately, is not to look at the
nine to five as a negative, but to look at
it for what it actually is. It's three distinct things.
The nine to five is a time box objectively without
any bias. It's a time box. Number two, it's a
time box for focus. Right, you're supposed to be trading

(01:52):
your time and your effort for money objectively true. And three,
this is where we need to sit in most cases,
the nine to five time box, where you are focused
and trading your time and work effort for money. The
third part is you are working for someone else. You see,

(02:15):
that's the difference between entrepreneur and the entre procurious. The
entree procurious are the ones who might may have a
nine to five job, and they're curious enough to maybe
want to go out and make that side hustle their
main hustle. The entre precurious, though, sometimes are deceived because

(02:36):
they think that the regular nine to five job in
a corporate setting is a waste, so then they should
go do something else. Then they should go do something
else because at the end of the day, the practical
individual will look at time and say I have limited time,
I have limited budget. I need money so that I
can spend that money on the thing that I want

(02:58):
to do. And so there's nothing wrong with the nine
to five if that nine to five is a means
to something greater. Right now, if I were to take
a step back even farther, like really back, nobody should
be hting on the nine to five at all. And

(03:19):
the reason is is because if that individual is doing
what is required of them, meaning taking responsibility for their
life and doing their best to support themselves, maybe their family,
maybe mouse defeat, maybe kids, then that is pure honor,

(03:42):
pure honor. I am never above anybody else. You know.
The highest title I could give myself, I would say
is I'm a capital deployer. Right, I'm a venture capitalist.
But that's just the title. I help people. I work

(04:02):
with people. I help people build their ideas, their startups,
all right. I try to find investment in money so
that they can succeed. That's my job. But that's there's
nothing different from what I'm doing from say a baker
or someone who's in customer service at a local shop downtown. Right,

(04:23):
they are spending their time to help people, to communicate
with people, to serve them well. And if they're doing
that well and honorably with integrity, then there is nothing, nothing, nothing,
that we could say to demean or diminish or deroun them.

(04:43):
They are doing the honorable thing, supporting themselves in their family,
which is first. Not everybody can be so entree pro
curious that they have the opportunity to take that side
hustle and making a main hustle. So TLDR is anyone
hating on the nine to five? They've missed the narrative.

(05:04):
They've missed the narrative. What are you going to replace
the nine to five with? Make up money, make believe,
fictional thinking, wishful thinking that you're going to be awesome
when you're not going to put on the work. Why
don't you learn how to be a big fish in
a small pond? That actually reminds me of a story.
I'll tell you this. I had a guy one time
as a car salesman, and I had bought multiple very

(05:25):
nice cars from him, and he was talking to me
about how he could move up in the world and
car salesman. I've told this story before, and the long
story short of it is I looked at him and
I said, are you the number one salesperson at your
car dealership now? And he said nope, And I said, okay, well,
then do that first. Do that first, prove to this
car dealership that you can be the best, so that

(05:48):
you open up options to move to the next level.
Don't be wishing that you were better. Don't be wishing
that you could be more successful and sell more cars
over here when you haven't even proved it here to