Re:Why I'm an Entrepreneur
by geon on Saturday June 30, 2012 @05:55AM
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I started my company out of the opposite need: No one would hire me.
I was fresh out of university in 2004, in the middle of the second IT bubble, living in a not-so-hot city job market wise. I must have applied to over a hundred job ads.
I had a short gig at a very small company without a salesperson, until they could no longer afford having me. Then I worked on an assembly line until 2006, when a friend needed a dynamic website for his employee.
I quit my day job in 2008, but it's not until the last year or so it's been starting to go well. An I still have a long way to go until I reach a normal developer income level.
But I have learnt so much during those years! I really don't regret starting my own. I have seriously considered getting a 9-5 job, but the freedom I enjoy makes it hard to imagine not working for myself.
I was fresh out of university in 2004, in the middle of the second IT bubble, living in a not-so-hot city job market wise. I must have applied to over a hundred job ads.
I had a short gig at a very small company without a salesperson, until they could no longer afford having me. Then I worked on an assembly line until 2006, when a friend needed a dynamic website for his employee.
I quit my day job in 2008, but it's not until the last year or so it's been starting to go well. An I still have a long way to go until I reach a normal developer income level.
But I have learnt so much during those years! I really don't regret starting my own. I have seriously considered getting a 9-5 job, but the freedom I enjoy makes it hard to imagine not working for myself.