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When my father was big in fishing and the fish in those days were more plentiful it was very tempting to become a professional fishermen. So tempting, in fact, that several people who had full-time jobs did so. One youngster who came fishing with us wasn’t particularly motivated to work for a boss and learnt as much as he could from my father about how to fish professionally. Continue reading “Who would you go to for advice on starting a business?”
The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that trying to be alone wolf small business operator doesn’t work.
If you take yourself back to a time when you were struggling on your own, you may remember how hard things were.
Go back to when you were just starting out in your own business. What did it feel like working on your own? Didn’t you find that it took your time, too much time, to learn through trial and error what you could have learnt with someone helping you?
Being on your own, facing the world alone, is not easy. You have to work out everything for yourself. You have to do everything yourself. You have to come up with your own ideas for everything. Continue reading “Can you succeed as a lone wolf business person?”
