Entrepreneurship While Working

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 10:46am by William Quisenberry in Innovation

In many cases as young entrepreneurs you have to find alternative ways to cover fees, incurring expenses and ways to increase capital cash flows which usually means using debt instruments or in my case taking on a job.

For about six month now I’ve been working another job during the graveyard shift and weekends to help with expenses and find an alternative way to financing.

I’m also an individual that feels like investing is basically another form of entrepreneurship, so I’ve also been taking some of my earnings and investing them in stocks, mutual funds, precious metals like gold and silver and of course my business ventures.

Basically my whole level of thinking is to currently increase cash flows, investments, appreciable assets and to reduce liabilities like debt, expenses, depreciable items and unnecessary purchases.

I’m not the type that really likes to use loans because like I mentioned before I want to keep my debt levels low and I’ve had some bad experiences with credit cards when I was younger and I always try to learn from my mistakes.

So really where does that leave me, it means I need to burn the midnight oil and put a little elbow grease into my efforts and grab another position, which I happen to hate by the way!

Every night and weekend when I go to work I’m reminded of why I chose entrepreneurship as a lifestyle, because being in the rat race just isn’t a level in life that’s conducive to my personality or my individual goals.

Now that I’m working when I use to be in bed resting, I’m usually only getting a couple of hours of sleep per night and I’m always tired throughout the day. In fact usually at least one or maybe even two days out of the week, I will go 24 hours or more without any sleep at all.

However knowing that this is only a temporary pattern and that I have greater opportunities to look forward to very soon helps motivate me, because it is always easier to continue on when you can see light at the end of the tunnel.

As for right now I’m working a fulltime job, operating several entities and going to school fulltime, so you can imagine just how busy my lifestyle is at this point. How long I will keep the job is a mystery, but I’m guessing maybe until this spring when I graduate.

Consistently over and over again I must remind myself of what my father and grandparents always told me when I was growing up,

“Sometimes in life to get to where you want to go you have to do things that you don’t want to do.”

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