Business Owners Are the Only Grownups in the Room
Starting a business means giving up eternal childhood
When a business fails, the employees can easily jump ship to another company and carry on as if nothing had happened. Yeah, their life will suck for a little bit. Maybe they’ll have to go on unemployment for a month or two. They’ll have to go through the pain and humiliation of the interview process. But they’ll survive, mostly unscathed.
You as the business owner will be one the who has to deal with the aftermath.
Starting a business doesn’t just mean that you get to “be your own boss” and “make money in your sleep”. Those are trite cliches.
What it really means is that you’re choosing to take ultimate responsibility for success or failure. You get most of the rewards if it works out, and you have to accept all of the downsides if it doesn’t.
It means that you’re stepping up and choosing to be one of the few Actual Adults in our Peter Pan society where most get to be eternal children from cradle to grave.
You’ll definitely realize this without a shadow of a doubt once you have to manage employees.