BornEntrepreneur

As a part-time entrepreneur, you’re just waiting for the time when you can transition into a full-time entrepreneur and leave your current job. However, when you’re an employee of a small company it makes it extra hard to leave even when you have reached the point when you’re ready to make a move. It’s interesting actually. Although I am not ready to leave, when I am, I will have to fight with the dynamics of abandoning a close-knit team of friends, where people depend on you for certain things. When you leave you are certainly putting a strain on your co-workers at least until a suitable replacement is found. It’s human nature to not want to cause this strain. That makes leaving an extra hard decision. It’s a double-edged sword. The “mother hen” of the company recently left to take another job. She had been with the company nearly 3 yrs, signficiantly longer than most others. She knew everything and was the backbone of the operations side of things. She was telling me her biggest problem was that she felt like she was betraying us and leaving us in a tough spot. We will be in a tough spot for a while actually, but I told her how happy I was for her that she was pursuing this other opportunity.

In life, sometimes you must be selfish. After all, it is your life.  If you are not living it for yourself, who are you living it for?

It takes a lot of courage to do, but then again everything in life that is worth something makes you vulnerable and takes all courage you can muster.