Being An Entrepreneur In A Room Full Of Employees

What makes you stand out? Imagine being raised by a family of hard working business owners. Are you imagining it? Okay good. So picture yourself growing up going to a neighborhood where you’re family owns three daycares on the block and a Laundromat right next door. Picture going to daycare faithfully until the age of 15 and keep in mind the cut off age of daycare is 12. Most kids run away from daycare as soon as they are old enough to escape the system. Imagine gaining a love for teaching because your family decided to set an outstanding example of what it means to be a support to your community. Through the example I got of the importance of supporting community, I learned how amazing it was to be your own boss. Most teens can’t wait until they are old enough to get a job working for someone else to enhance the business of a complete stranger. I’ve ALWAYS thought why support someone else’s business when I could put that effort towards my own vision. Having a family of business owners really molded the set in stone mind set I have about being an entrepreneur. At the age of about 10 I really gained a love for teaching because of being in daycare so long. Between the ages of about 13 and 15 I attempted to start a million businesses, it wasn’t until my sophomore year that I truly found my calling when I joined an organization called Urban Underground, The place where I found my voice and my love for facilitating. Now that I know what my calling is all I have to do is live my vision, to me, that is my job. No one is going to live my vision for me. I am a creative person so I naturally have an interest in plethora of things. Yesterday my mom brought to my attention what my fear was and what risks i weren’t willing to take. She told me that my fear of not wanting to chose what “my thing” is based on all my interest is holding me back from being successful in any one of those things. She made me realize I don’t have to stick to one thing for the rest of my life but I can chose one thing to focus on for now. She said, “”You don’t have to pick “The thing”, just pick “A thing””, and that is what made me realize that I can do this! Writing this blog and making “askE” s success is my job! So although I was hired at Subway a couple days ago, the “Job” I am most proud of being hired at is my blog! Guess what everyone I recently got hired by MYself, to run MY own business! What an accomplishment! So what makes you stand out? Will you keep working for the success of someone else’s business of will you work toward finding your passion and hire yourself? 

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