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Why Most People Are Smarter Than To Start Their Own Business

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readApr 7, 2024

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Starting your own business is not the dream it is made out to be.

It is something that the internet has formed into an ideal from various survivor stories, but that is much harder to actually make a reality than it seems.

Being your own boss, relying on just your own skills to get you anywhere, and having absolutely no security net are things most people cannot handle.

It’s a stressful life where what you put in is not guaranteed to reap you any rewards.

Many people that start their own business work longer hours, for less pay, and struggle with much more stress.

That is why the few of us that were stupid enough to start their own businesses often did so with absolutely no idea of what it would entail.

We had an idea, a concept, that we wanted to bring to the world and thought there would be takers everywhere.

We could not have been more wrong!

Starting a business is so much more work and so much harder than just getting a job.

Sure, the job market isn’t great, but once you have a job someone is paying for your time and as long as you do what you are told, you are often safe.

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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