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What It Takes to Start a Business While Working Full-Time

The lessons I wish somebody had told me years ago

Manj Bahra
The Startup
Published in
12 min readApr 13, 2021

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So, you want to work for yourself? Fed up of seeking approval for holiday, listening to your bosses crap and doing work you have no passion for? I don’t blame you. But that doesn’t make it any easier. See, there’s a small issue of paying the bills, saving money, and living a life that gets in the way for most of us.

And so you wait. You stay where you are, patiently collecting a pay-cheque, repeating your mundane routines, and wondering when life will happen for you. All the while, the tension begins to build quietly. It rises until it reaches a simmer, and suddenly you boil over declaring the line crossed— it’s now or never.

Unfortunately, you realize it’s not that simple. You know you can’t just quit your job when you have responsibilities, so it’s going to be a case of working overtime. The next day, you wake up extra early to hustle before your regular job. It starts well, and you tell all your friends what you’re doing. Yet as the week unfolds, it becomes harder to wake up early every day. The stresses of your real job keep piling on, and by the time you find a moment to focus on your gig, you’ve forgotten where you left off. You find yourself back to square one, frustrated with your lack of progress. You begin to wonder — is this even possible?

That brings us to some key questions:

  • Why do so many people struggle to follow through while a select few manage to put it together?
  • Is being an entrepreneur something you are born with or something that can be learned?
  • Are some of us restricted by fixed limitations that cannot be changed?
  • Do you need to quit your job to start something of your own?

The ability to create something of your own while working full-time is not down to talent or time. What holds you back is simply a lack of understanding of what’s required and a collection of limiting beliefs that paralyze you.

What I’ve described above isn’t some attempt to draw you in — it’s simply a description of my life from age 22–27. After numerous attempts to get something going, I had nothing to show but repeated…

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Manj Bahra
The Startup

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