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WCDT strips 4076-4080 (26th to 30th August 2019)
Tova:
--- Quote from: DSL on 26 Aug 2019, 10:17 ---Surprising attitude from a dad who's on record as saying: "Being someone else's employee is the worst."
Well, maybe not too surprising -- don't all parents eventually fall into the "Do as I say, not as I do" trap?
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What, you think she could become a business owner without once having been employed and be good at it? Really?
If he opposed goals to become a business owner, that would be "do as I say, not as I do." Telling her to start by getting a job is "do as I did."
Is it cold in here?:
Hmm. The skill sets of employment and entrepreneurship are different, but they overlap.
Sam can possibly benefit from learning to plan, schedule, and follow through on projects. That's part of the overlap.
And, as you point out, that's how Jim got started himself.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Aug 2019, 15:19 ---Sam can possibly benefit from learning to plan, schedule, and follow through on projects. That's part of the overlap.
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That is definitely true, yes.
You could possibly even learn that without getting a job. Learning to lead people, on the other hand, does involve learning what makes for good leadership, and what makes for bad leadership. And there's really only one way to grok that.
And that's by starting at the bottom.
Is it cold in here?:
Ooh! Had not thought of that.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: DSL on 26 Aug 2019, 10:17 ---Surprising attitude from a dad who's on record as saying: "Being someone else's employee is the worst."
Well, maybe not too surprising -- don't all parents eventually fall into the "Do as I say, not as I do" trap?
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I've run a few training days and have worked with people who have tried to start their own business. Generally speaking, the businesses that are most likely to fail are the ones by people who have just gotten out of university. You need some experience, you need to start somewhere and frankly it shouldn't be in the deep end of the pool that is business.
Yes, Jim worked for someone else at some stage, but decided he wanted to be his own boss. He also probably works longer hours than he did when he was working for someone else. But he more than likely learned the ropes, ordering stock, building up connections and gaining experience. And as he is his own boss, I doubt he'd want to go back to "regular employment."
But Sam, well, she's his daughter and he knows that she isn't like most people and knows that, yeah, she could work at the bakery, but that won't satisfy her in any way. That or he's afraid that she'll lose an arm trying to feed the kneading machine. But Jim is savvy enough to know that his daughter needs to start somewhere. It's not hypocrisy, its a father teaching his daughter that she needs to pay her dues.
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