Entrepreneurials

> G'day. I am studying to become a teacher
> (early Childhood) and am in my last year. I
> am currently taking a course called The
> Entrepreneurial Professional.

How odd. I didn't know the government wanted teachers to have knowledge of Entrepreneurs. How can they turn the children into mindless automoton droids? In fact, being an entrepreneur goes AGAINST how the school system wants everyone to be.

In school, working with another is called cheating. Outside of school it is teamwork - and no corporation/entrepreneur is without it.

In school, having notes handy while doing certain tasks is a big No No. On the outside, it's a big No No not to have your notes handy at all times.

School is about "what job will you do?" and "what job are your training to do" and not about how to be an entrepreneur.

Anyway.

I found this
> website and was hoping that I could get some
> feedback on people who say they are
> entrepreneurs and what makes them
> entrepreneurial.

Do you want feedback ON people who SAY they are entrepreneurs or feedback FROM people who ARE entrepreneurs?

First, you need to define what an entrepreneur is. And consulting my dictionary I find...

Entrepreneur: one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.

So to answer your question... a person who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise is an entrepreneur. Doing those things - organizing, managing and assuming the risk of a business or enterprise - makes someone an entrepreneur (whether they claim it or not).

WHY someone chooses to be an entrepreneur is a different matter. As Dennis said, each entrepreneur has their own reasons...

• Control of their income
• Not limited by income
• Control of their time
• Work when they want to
• Reduce risk because their income is not dependent on someone else
• Can't be "told what to do" by anyone
• More freedom - in income, time, life in general
• And a myriad of other reasons including combinations of all of the above

What other people see as risky an entrepreneur sees as more-secure. They see "working for the man" as risky. At any moment the axe could fall and you are out on the street looking for another man to work for. Hoping this time the axe won't fall for a few years.

Look at yourself... you want to be a teacher - work for someone else, most probably the government. Have you asked yourself WHY? WHY you want to work for someone else and not yourself?

You have to look deeply at both sides - the worker and the entrepreneur.

Right now, the easiest thing for you to do is copy & paste some parts of our answers, or do a little paraphrasing, and then hand that in as your "assignment completed." But that is another example of the spoonfed mentality of the government education system. You want answers spoonfed to you - and you have received some. But you will never truly understand or appreciate them unless you live them.

The qualification you seek is an example of what I was getting at when I said the school system just wants you to be a worker. Do you see it? You are taking a "course" so you can "go work for someone else."

Perhaps you can tell us... why do you want to work for someone else instead of yourself?

Michael Ross


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