The difference between a job and being a freelancer (or entrepreneur)

Like it or not but when you’re a freelancer or (an entrepreneur) you’re essentially the IT department, the design department, the marketing department, the sales department, the biz dev department and the CEO all at the same time.

Until you have enough clients to pay someone to do stuff for you.

But to get to the point where you can hire someone to do all of this for you, you’d essentially have to do all of the above.

Even if you want to raise outside money you’d essentially need paying customers already.

Unless you want to flush your friend’s and family’s money down the toilet or want to raise dumb money from people who invest in ideas with zero proof of concept and zero market validation.

On the other hand when you have a job, then your only job is to do one thing and one thing only.

The thing you’re good at.

The thing you were hired to do.

Your job as an employee is to be as productive as possible doing your thing.

That’s what you’re essentially getting paid for.

And that’s something a lot of people tend to forget…

Did you know that?

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