Working For Myself Is A Truly Great Experience That I Don't Plan To Let Go
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Working For Myself Is A Truly Great Experience That I Don't Plan To Let Go

Some people will live the greatest life in the world. With a 9-5 job or not, I'm at least going to try.

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Working For Myself Is A Truly Great Experience That I Don't Plan To Let Go
Shaurya Pandya

Let's make something perfectly clear. I do not think jobs are stupid. Nor do I think everyone should be an entrepreneur, and nor do I think that everyone is cut out to do the work of an employee.

At the same time, I'm not sure if I always will be an entrepreneur. I don't know whether or not I will be the CDO of a major company, nor do I know if I will end up becoming a journalist at a real-life ACN. I'm 16. But so far, I think entrepreneurship has done me well. And there's a reason why I love it so much.

Building my own thing, it's taught me a lot... more than I've ever learned in school. It's taught me how to produce, how to have a work ethic, how to establish connections, how to lead with grace and how to be your own moral compass.

It's given me the opportunity to change myself over and over again, and to learn an astonishing amount from mistakes I make, the successes I gain. There was once a time in my life where I would procrastinate in ways undefiable to man, seriously pushing everything I had to do to the last minute.

I would get unimaginably distracted. I didn't know anything about leadership (I still don't know all that much, but I'd say I know a fraction more than before). To me, entrepreneurship started as an experiment of me just doing whatever the hell I wanted to do. Writing, designing, speaking of anything that sparked my interest.

That right there, that's the key point... interest. Before, I was only subject to the woes of school: required subjects, early wake ups and testing. And to me, doing that isn't exciting, inspiring, full of energy, stunning immaturity and grit-full of the surprise that life takes you by.

It simply wasn't something that sparked my interest. The freedom that entrepreneurship has given me, the freedom to explore whatever I want, experiment whatever I want, fail whenever I may, try again how often I want and experience as much as I can has been unmatched by any formal education I remember receiving.

But more importantly, it changed me. It changed the kind of guy I was and who I wanted to be. What I wanted to fight for in my life, what I had a passion for, what I thought, how I thought and how I perceived the world.

Building and working on my own projects makes me become a harder worker. It made me want to fight for educational freedom, for creativity and for inspiration.

Learning so much so fast, that's an experience that I can't find myself wanting to live without. The stunning marvel of being able to experience a hint of life and to learn so much from it...that's something I can't find myself wanting to live without, and so far, for me, and from my experiences, working for myself seems to have been the best solution to help me get there.

I know that entrepreneurship is risky. And I know that it takes a lot to make it work. I also know it is an unpredictable path. But for me, it also means I won't regret as much.

It means I'm going to learn a lot. It means I'm going to get to meet great people and do what I want. Maybe I won't earn much money, maybe I will. Maybe I won't get fame, maybe I will.

But I'll have a thrilling experience in my life. I'll learn a lot. I'll get to create things. That's what entrepreneurship has given me and what I think it won't fail to give me. A great experience, For me, that's worth the risk.

Maybe the chances are I won't change the universe, get rich or famous and walk on a red carpet. But I know damn well that I'm at least going to try to grasp and learn whatever I can.

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