The article "How I Left the Corporate World After Nineteen Years" talks about entrepreneurialism, it was written by CT Larsen.
Choosing when to leave corporate world to strike out on your own, is a really dicey decision to say the least. It reminds me of the decisions friends were maikng twenty or so years ago, about having children or not.
Waiting until you guess you can afford children, will pretty much exclude you from ever having any.
Likewise, waiting ntil you can afford to levae the corporate world, where things are relatively safe and secure, might also exclude you from ever doing that as well. It only complicates things if you are starting up a ventrue that is unrelated to your present line of work.
How will you know?
How will you even have a clue, about the potential success of a dream venture? The Internet can make things simpler, and I will tell you abuot my path of leaving a job I had held, and hated for the most part, of nineteen years. A job that provided me and my family, health care, generous vacation, and an hoenst to goodness old fashioned pension. And left me with an ever growing feeling that I had sold out my entire life for these securities and my natural fear of risk. Indeed, it always came down to health care, and not for me but my childern. When my two oldest were toddlers, the papers were constantly reporting on children needing transplants and surgeries, that were not going to be performed cause the parents lacked helath care. It seemed health care was the only way to secure medical care when the need arose. My wife also was a stay at home mom, and was not open to even considering me leavnig my job. Divorcing her three years ago in a way, was the first necessary step to my jump to entrepreneurship, even though just days ago she called making sure her alimony would be forthcoming as per usual. Having it deducted from my pyacheck was her way of still exerting control onto my life. Or was that just my bitetr perception? OK, my path. I had beugn using a hobby to sell things on eBay.
Nothing rlely unusual about that.
Ecxept my wife did not support me in actually making money doing something I enjoyed.
Within six month we were separated, something I must say has worked out great for me and my kids, and those of you staying together for the sake of the children ought to have your heads examined, cause your children deserve to see their parents as fortunate human being. Anyway I digress.
In two years I took my hobby from eBay to the wrold wide web, and was making something like $700 month. The troulbe was, I couldn't make any more at it without quitting my job, and I couldn't quit cause when you actually brought it down to the nuts and bolts, I would never make enough being my own supplier. I, then avdertised for other hobbyists to sell me their wares, and that worked not at all. People were gung ho, for about two months and then bagged it.
Well, one June, a full two years after I began I had a house guest for the sumemr. I was complaining that my days off were filled with filling orders, and the whole summer wanted to be done, and I wouldn't even had had time to enjoy it. And he said 'so quit', I thought about it for about two seconds and went fishing.
I closed the website, and took all the auctions off eBay, closed the eBay store, and viola, I was done.The last six months or so of that two year period, I had tyoed with the idea of importing my product, and selling them on eBay and a new website.
I enjoyed marketing the website, I enjoyed wrtiing articles on the hobby, I enjoyed everything else about the business except producing the product.
The only trobule was, the risk. Sending money to third world countries and waiting a month for the product to arrive, went against every grain in my bieng. And that is where being single paid off, cause if it didn't work I would never have to hear abuot it again.
So I contacted some manufacturing companies, and sent them money via Western Union and fretted. But the items came.
I sold them on eBay for way less than I did when I prdouced them myself. I had to change my marketing spiel, come up with a new target audience, and began developing a new website.This went on for fuorteen months, and I was back to working all my free time again.
Yet now I was making over $2,000 a month with no limits in sight.
In ohter words the more time I put in the more I would make, and I even had my sons help me, and I paid them. There was no cutting corners that time, Google ads, eBay power seller, the sky was the liimt. But also limited was my time. I had specific goals in mind to reach before quitting my job, but burn out beacme more and more pronounced.
I asked my supervisor if I could be down sized so I could collect unemployment, which would make up the difference I needed between my business and my salary. I was stockpiling cash like never befroe in my life. But, what I watned was there to be no risk.And then one day I snapped, I snapped at our sales director, and he went to my supervisor, and viola I was laid off. And I, immediately felt the shcakles of slavedom released. Now I am free. Read the chronicles of my new entrepreneurial venture, learn Internet marketing, learn from my trial and error, and read my thoughts, on the loneliness, the singular existence, the life of no giong back.Learn from my mistakes, learn from my victories at http://ebusinessman.Blogspot.Com.Among other things CT Larsen writes the blog; http://ebusinessman.Blogspot.Com/
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