Who Is An Employee And Who Is An Entrepreneur That No One Is Talking About? Find Out If You are An Employee Or An Entrepreneur!

The most common and traditional way of working for the majority of the workforce has been to work as an employee in an organization or in a company. 

This is what our educational system comprising of schools, colleges and universities have taught us to do. 

The school system teaches us to be good, hard-working, disciplined, submissive, and obedient employees. 

Addressing your superiors like “Yes Sir, Yes Ma'am” or “Good Morning Sir, Good Morning Ma'am” has directly emanated from the school education that we receive in our childhood. 

An employee is always a desperate job seeker and financially needy for which he needs utmost job security and safety and just cannot live without a steady and guaranteed monthly paycheck. 

Every kind of employee at any level of hierarchy in an organization or of a company will definitely have a boss or a superior over his head to whom he has to report.

An employee has to obey orders and deliver work strictly according to the rules and policies of the management of the company. 

An employee generally works in a team either as a team leader or in a management position or as a team member or as an individual contributor with his other office colleagues and is generally regarded as a team player. 

Just like in school a student studies hard to get promoted every year to the next higher class similarly an employee in an organization works hard for his annual salary increments and bonuses and other company perks, benefits, salary packages, and periodic job promotions. 

Yes, a successful and well-performing employee does get to rise the corporate ladder.

This is the overall mindset of an employee and there is nothing wrong with this mindset if this is suitable to you and you are happy, satisfied, successful, and making progress in life and career as an employee. 

But the problem comes when being an employee sucks and you are generally unhappy, dissatisfied, bored, disillusioned, and overall remain unsuccessful in life and career as an employee.  

What to do then? 

Does an employee have any other option in his life and career?

The answer is a big “Yes” and that is to become an entrepreneur.

Now, there is a misconception that an employee can also be an entrepreneur and can work in an organization or a company like an entrepreneur.

Well, this is not actually true.

You cannot be both an employee and an entrepreneur at the same time. Either you are an employee or you are an entrepreneur.

This is because of the following mindset that a true entrepreneur holds.

An entrepreneur generally likes and prefers a solitary workstyle. 

A lone wolf by nature, they thrive in environments when they work alone and are solely responsible for their own results. 

To perform at their best, it’s important for them to have time away by themselves to think and let ideas percolate. 

They don’t always work as efficiently or creatively when constantly surrounded by other people or forced to collaborate. 

They can become distracted by other people and sometimes have difficulty splitting up discrete parts of a task or project with others.

Information wants to be free, and so do they! They need a job where they can be in control of their hours, their schedule, their deliverables, and their results. 

It’s their way or the highway, and that’s the way they like it. 

As far as an entrepreneur is concerned, the best kind of boss is no boss; they don’t do well reporting to anyone.

Not only do they prefer to work on their own, but they also prefer to work at their own pace. 

Rather than motivate them, deadlines and deliverables paralyze them. Rather than energize them, stress, well, stresses them out! 

They are patient and thoughtful and are probably best suited for lengthy, ambitious projects where their role is thinking long-term instead of short-term.

Being the independent, creative sort who marches to the beat of their own drum, they are not always driven by the traditional incentives typically doled out in a corporate workplace. 

Sure, everyone’s got to make enough cash to pay the bills, but they are not particularly motivated by money or flashy perks. More important is that they receive satisfaction from their work.

Entrepreneurs are unlikely to find the work they are born to do in a traditional company or organization. 

They are much more suited to a solo career or as a creative person whether as a self-employed independent contractor or as a consultant or as a freelancer of an organization or company as their client that lets them work from home or from a shared workspace, or any role where they can be both self-empowered and self-employed.

Other good careers for them include those that require a lot of patience and long-term focus, like an academic, a researcher, writer, or an independent strategy consultant.

In any employment agreement, they will always negotiate for maximum flexibility. They are prepared to demonstrate that they will be more effective when being left to create their own schedule and working environment.  

When scheduling their work hours, they want to make sure that they include plenty of time to work alone and independently. They want to be careful about letting meetings fill their calendar. To avoid “meeting creep,” they want to schedule themselves first and then add any additional commitments.

This allows and provides an entrepreneur an ideal opportunity to create their own businesses and create jobs for others thereby creating their own ladder of promotions in their career.

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So you see now who is an employee and who is an entrepreneur. 

Both are good in their own way, it's just that you need to find your own suitability and happiness in either being an employee or being an entrepreneur according to your life and career goals, dreams, aspirations, needs, desires, mission, and vision.

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