Da MAIN THING about "being yer own boss" is......

First, we should define "entroopreener" (whatever the hell that is).

A couple of quotes from Wikipedia....

"An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by an Irish economist named Richard Cantillon) is a person who undertakes and operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks."

and....

"Business entrepreneurs often have strong beliefs about a market opportunity and are willing to accept a high level of personal, professional or financial risk to pursue that opportunity."

What do both of those quotes have in common?

RISK!

My defination of an "Entrepreneur" would be similar.

It would be someone who has a vision and is able to see not just the big picture but also the path to get there. But that's the easy part.

The entrepreneur is a gambler who is ready to lay it all on the line and assume all the risk, knowing that business failure can and often does equal personal and life failure. We know that our personal mistakes can wipe out everything we've ever worked for.

We weigh the risks and the rewards and make our best call and WE GO FOR IT with our own skin in the deal.

We employ others and make a difference in the lives of their famlies with their paychecks depending on us. We know that if we fail, they fail too and we make the sacrifices necessary to assure that doesn't happen. (and we know that sometimes we can't stop it from happening)

That's a whole lot different than selling little ads on placemats and calling yourself an "entroopreener".

Don likes to come up with a bunch of ways to make little chuncks of cash here and there, and if that's your thing, no problem, more power to ya.

Just don't make the mistake of calling yourself an entrepreneur because of it.

Jim