[bra_dropcaps style=’dropcap2′]A[/bra_dropcaps]ll through life I was a leader. When I was about 13 I would be the one on the phone trying to get that WoW sleep-over going. That’s right, I’d be trading my mom chores to turn that “no, it’s a school night” into “only if you clean your room”. Boom! Time to watch the NWO and practice my body slams. From there I would organize my friends to do whatever it was we were into at the time, break dancing, flips, recording music, all of it. I didn’t know it at the time because we were just having fun but I was growing my skills as a leader.
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When I started working I wouldn’t last very long at jobs and I thought it was due to laziness (which I’m sure played a part). Thinking about it now, I actually loved each job I was at but something kept pulling me away. It wasn’t until I started producing music for people that I noticed I could make $500 in 6-10 hours. That was just mind boggling to me, I don’t have to work 40 hours a week to make $250! For a 16 year old I was #makingpaper! There was still one underlining problem, I was in a small town and there weren’t that many people to record… So i still had to do the dreadful 9-5.
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[bra_blockquote align=”]I went back and forth at jobs, always concluding that my boss was an asshole[/bra_blockquote] and “I don’t have to take this shit”. The last 9-5 I had was at a video production company in Orlando, FL and as always I couldn’t stand my boss (Jason). I could not put my finger on why exactly so I started making up reasons; “he was dumb”, “he had no clue how to run a business”, “I wasn’t getting paid enough”, and my favorite “I could do it better”. I know realize that all that was bullshit. Jason was a decent guy, not a great guy but he was far from a bad boss. Him and I started the business from nothing, it was as raw of a start-up as you could get but I dealt with NONE of the start-up pains because of him. I always got paid on time, I received good raises, plenty of time off, and I didn’t really have to work hard at all. He gave me a dream job to be honest but the one thing that still plagued my mind as it always does , I was not the leader, I was not in control, I could not directly influence the business. I needed to run my own company and when I finally left Orlando, I got everything I asked for.
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Trust me when I say, think twice before jumping into your own business. Some months you make great money, some months you make no money. Taxes are awful and no one giving you direction is scary but I absolutely love it. With all of the headaches and sleepless nights, I would not trade it for anything.
In the end, I did not hate my bosses or my jobs, I just needed something that no job could give me and thanks to the internet today, I have it. Heres to another successful year!
