Some people show greater interest in running their own businesses than being a paid employee of some business run by others.

• What encourages people to be entrepreneurs?
• Do you think it is advantageous to be an employee?

Becoming an entrepreneur is like dream come true for many though it is not that easy. Obviously, there are factors that drive people to take that tough path. But barring a select few, every one is happy with the advantages of being an employee.

The most powerful force that drives people to dream of an entrepreneur is that they are the masters of their destiny. Such people are under no one, and there are several under them. This is a privilege being savoured by such businessmen.
Secondly, it is not a small thing to get oneself independently employed and, at the same time, be the paymaster of certain number of employees. This independence enables them to try new businesses as per their wish. Thirdly, it is the social value that propels the urge to run one’s own business.

All these rare privileges are not in any way able to make paid employment unattractive or lest wanted. Rather being an employee gives one extreme freedom compared to entrepreneurship. The latter demands the person to carry all the headache of running the show. Secondly, an employee is able to enjoy better work life balance because work is just part of his life. Third thing that occurs to me is that an employee with the right attitude may be able to climb the upper rungs of their career; there is an entrepreneur up there notwithstanding.

The lures of being an entrepreneur are very hard to resist, and the fruits of which are sweeter too. But being an employee under some business is much more comfortable for great many than being able to what we call ‘a boss around’.

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