A Word from Corporate America

Friday, November 17, 2006 at 10:34am by William Quisenberry in Innovation

Hi my name is corporate America, why don’t you come have some fun with me and join my party buddy. What, you want to hang out with entrepreneur instead; are you mentally insane! Why would you strike out on your own like some renegade when there is a whole corporate America out there that offers you great opportunity?

Do you need me to spell out all the excellent jewels you will be missing out on? Fine I will, but I promise you after I’m done explaining what you’re missing, you won’t want to even think about that entrepreneur crap anymore!

For starters you’re missing out on a pure opportunity of a lifetime. Everybody knows that entrepreneurs end up owning their companies one day, becoming richer while their employees slave and labor to make the owner wealthier, but the employees continue to grow poorer and further in debt themselves. Now which would you want?

Also don’t forget about the set pay you will receive in corporate America, we will give you a nice steady eddy pay check, most likely with little deviation and we will work you to death, keep you around the office all night.

Yup, that’s right we will have you pulling your hair out trying to reach deadlines in hopes of you one day receiving a promotion, which we will pass you up on despite your loyalty and qualifications and give it to the next guy or gal who is less qualified, because they learned the art of tush kissing and you didn’t. Are you convinced yet to leave that entrepreneur stuff alone, O K let me go deeper.

I almost forgot about creative control, that’s right-we will offer you absolutely zip, nada, zero, NONE!

Sure we will make you sit in conference rooms all night with other stuffy pencil pushers trying to think up great ideas, but when you come up with one, we will do you a favor and shoot it down or either if it’s really good, we will just take all the credit for you and receive the large bonuses when the project is a great success! That way we keep the pressure off ya kid, you know what I mean?

Then there are the BENEFITS! Ahh, now I know that I’ve got you hooked. Old entrepreneur can’t offer you those nice secure 401K’s, Stock Options and Pension Plans can he?

Of course he can’t, the best he can do is offer you loads of residual income, cash flow and assets in hopes of you placing all your income into your own investment avenues, what type of friend is he!

Of course after we make great promises to you about your secure retirement assets, we will however have to quickly cut them in half or possibly even take them away. Now calm down and don’t overreact; now I told you I’m your friend so I would never leave you high and dry like that without giving you some sort of reward.

Instead of you having to work 25 plus years, I’m going to give you an early retirement due to your years of hard work and hump busting! That’s right when you’re in debt up to your eyeballs, have bills to pay and a family to support, I’m going to give you a MANDATORY permanent vacation, some refer to it as downsizing, rightsizing or layoffs.

Whatever you call it, it’s the same right, just like there are different ways to say tomato. Now old entrepreneur would never offer you these benefits, because when you’re running the streets with him, you will have complete control over your job security, your investments and when you want to retire. Well doesn’t that just take all the fun and excitement out of it!

Now I know that you have to be convinced about corporate America now! So let me ask you, do you still want to be an entrepreneur?

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