The Greatest Lie They Tell You: Quit Your Day Job to Be An Entrepreneur

<p>I was twelve when I realised I wanted to be a businesswoman.</p> <p>I just decided to give up a year&rsquo;s contract at the best football club in the county because I had other ideas. I&rsquo;d relentlessly watched Dragon&rsquo;s Den and I was going to be a big dog. By fourteen I was sneaking sweets into the playground and selling them.</p> <p>But I lacked confidence. I gave up after a few weeks but the fact that I could buy a pack of chocolate bars for &pound;1 and make &pound;2 blew my mind. The entrepreneurial pursuits continued. I was hooked on business.</p> <p>I bought endless business biographies. I studied them. I came across one of my old books a few months back, there in the back were scribbles on postits summarising my thoughts.</p> <h1>But it was never as simple as I thought</h1> <p>University presented the perfect opportunity to start a business. I had so many ideas and so much time but yet the excuses came thick and fast:</p> <ul> <li>I didn&rsquo;t have any experience.</li> <li>I didn&rsquo;t have the money.</li> </ul> <p>Over the years I realised all of that was code for:<strong>&nbsp;I didn&rsquo;t want to try and fail.</strong>&nbsp;But like most great lessons, it&rsquo;s easy to see the writing on the wall in hindsight. As the years passed, I still had an undercurrent of wanting to be an entrepreneur.</p> <p>And when I was hit by the working corporate world, the desire became unbearable. I&rsquo;d spend my evenings binging on Gary Vee and sit in meetings the next day wondering what I was doing with my life. The contrast was stark.</p> <p>Here I was sitting in dismal meetings about stuff I can&rsquo;t remember, all the while thinking, I could be making something of myself.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/swlh/the-greatest-lie-they-tell-you-quit-your-day-job-to-be-an-entrepreneur-f411a636f701"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>