Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of an enterprise, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. It is an ambitious leader who combines land, labor, and capital to create and market new goods or services. The term is a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to the type of personality who is willing to take upon herself or ...
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PROSCONS
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Mar 30, 2009
Great potential for reward, which is more likely with hard work.
Great potential for failure, no matter how hard you work.
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Jun 5, 2008
The most exciting profession
Risky
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Mar 30, 2009
Freedom to create without the obstacles you encounter in most job jobs. Good for workaholics and people who don't keep normal hours. Constant learning, constant excitement, exhilarating risk.
Not for the faint hearted. When you've not been paid for 9 months, and you're selling furniture to make payroll, you long for that desk job at Bank of America.
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Mar 30, 2009
You control your own path in life. Your own skills define your success.
You control your own path in life. That's harder than it sounds.
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Mar 29, 2009
Defining your own path.
Success makes you hungrier.
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anon
Mar 31, 2009Self-employment sounds like a good idea...
...but is not so easy to master.
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Mar 29, 2009
hmm, sounds glamorous.
so much work!
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Dec 1, 2008
bust your own bollocks
roulette
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Apr 2, 2009
It becomes your life.
It becomes your life.
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Jun 15, 2009
It's all you, and usually a passion of yours, and easy to excel at.
Hard to start a start up that hasn't been thought of. Lack of Capital...
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Jun 18, 2009
Be your own path.
Dude, entrepreneur is not a job. Its a whole class of person that covers a range of people from those who sell one used shoe on the sidewalk to those who sell their business for billions.
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Jun 19, 2009
One must be extraordinarily organised, positve, highly motivated, confidient with lots of evergy in addition to typically required work experience, skills, capital etc
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Apr 1, 2009
You decide.
Your customer decides.
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Jun 24, 2009
its very exciting
risking financially is big risk.
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Mar 31, 2009
Fly Free
You really have to know yourself. Be brave.
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Jun 25, 2009
Succeeding would produce the bucks
Lose everything
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Sep 9, 2009
freedom for creativity, innovation financial independence. Success means you are king.
riskier than a secure job. Failure means you are a beggar.
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Oct 8, 2009
lots of control over what you do and when you do it. flexible hours. be your own boss.
lots of work and time. uncertain and unsteady income. being at the customers beck and call.
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Apr 1, 2009
Self employed
It is not really a job ;-)
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Jun 15, 2009
I've tried it, and loved not working for someone else
I've tried it, and found I don't motivate myself very well
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Mar 31, 2009
Your the creator.
Your the creator.
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Aug 19, 2009
Sure as hell possible....not Impossible!
Yeah......right....what with the economy tanking and all...........
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Oct 29, 2009
Be your own boss... just like everybody else.
LOL... NOT! My ambitions are bigger than this! ; ):
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Jan 5, 2010
Money. Creating organizations that last for decades. Employing people. Corporate culture and values. Doing good for others.
Can be a source of evil.
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Jan 6, 2010
Creativity and action at work !
And most important: Freedom !!!
You don't report to a boss any more, you ARE the boss. -
Jul 3, 2009
Hope be come to my life....
Work not easy like I think. Ha Ha
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Mar 31, 2009
The career that came up seems like a viable option for me, I would consider it
The profession I'm actually going in to came up 8th.
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Mar 30, 2009
yeah! I'm excited...lets get started ;)
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Apr 1, 2009
None.
It's not a job! It's an achievement.
