This is spot on...I have worked for myself since early 90's and have loved every minute of it...before that and along the way, I worked for other people and have been in different fields from bartending to graphic design to massage therapy to managing 20 people in a wholesale bakery to owning my own small retail shops and now Alternative Health Care and I have loved them all. It is a mindset. There is a feeling of freedom in owning your own business and there are challenges, you can't do everything yourself. You need good people that have the same mindset. I see so many people angry, frustrated, irritated about work and they take it home because they don't like the idea of working, the workplace or the people at work. They push their unhappiness and dissatisfaction down and try to celebrate their free time by drinking and being as outrageous as they can. Then they go back to work and suffer again. It doesn;t have to be that way. Working for someone else is an adventure. I teach employees to pretend the business is theirs and to think about what they would do if they wanted to help people, make them happy and grow our business....and to think about creating their own company in the same manner so they can expand. When you are growth driven - you are alway learning, growing, expanding and helping others do the same. Your day flies by and you wish there was more time to help people and more people to work with that have that same vision. Thanks for this post.
