Couldn’t agree more Sandeep. I’ve seen peers getting back to jobs after failed entrepreneurship and at the same time a constant journey from corporate world to ownership. Yet, I would like to share my perspective.
I’ve been a freelancer for 10 months in execution and 15 months in planning. While experienced campaigners tell me that u need to put in 3 years to arrive, I had made my own yardsticks of ‘success’ or ‘failure’ as we are dealing with it. These are a set of questions —
Did I learn, experience, execute, visualise … significantly different from what I was doing as a corporate professional?
Was I able to get out of my comfort zone and face problems, losses and rejections in my new avatar?
Am I confident to usher in new thoughts, ideas and the blueprint to take them ahead?
Am I balanced enough to take success and failure in my stride and yet strive for that ‘better than yesterday’ feeling along with the team?
… I can fairly say that the answers are a ‘Probably yes’. So, though my freelancing journey has not yielded great monetary gains, it has provided me the satisfaction that I am lot better than what I would have been if working in the same role for another year.
So, if I join a corporate today, in my eyes it would be a success than a failure.
