I remember I heard about this a long time ago, the band Blink-182, sort of this punk rock band and their drummer, Travis Barker. But the people that don't make it, a lot of times you're not going to hear those stories because they're not fun stories to hear about and it doesn't sell books and it doesn't work well, motivational stage and that kind of thing. Those are the types of people that do get interviewed on podcasts and all this stuff. Those are typically the stories you end up hearing about. And it is a great story when it works out well. It's sort of like this hero's journey where they're up against incredible odds and somehow, they overcome them. I think the reason why this idea catches on so much and why people love to tell this idea is because it makes for a really compelling story. I think most people have to do it slowly. I think most people don't cross the bridge into owning their own business full time and as their primary source of income without doing that slowly. It makes it a very good movie, but it's very much an outlier. But I think the stories of people “burning the boats” and going after their thing, their backs are against the wall, it's very inspirational. I just kind of feel like we owe our audience something that I wish somebody gave me when I was first starting out and kind of pull the curtain back and say, “This is not sound good on a stage when you're trying to hoorah the crowd”. Everybody that I know had a strategy to transition out. The only people that I've ever seen actually transition out of it into being able to sustain themselves long-term in a business that they own is very slow, very methodical, lots of contingency plans, lots of savings. Every single person that started is now working a full-time job, as an employee. I just remember, we thought so highly of ourselves with almost $0 in our bank account, just scraping by doing the “starving entrepreneurial” lifestyle as opposed to the starving artist's lifestyle of somebody who's pursuing music as their full-time thing. I left a really solid job to go pursue this real estate flipping business that was doomed to fail from the beginning. I remember a lot of my peers that left good jobs. And we would use language like “The Employee Mindset”. If you work for somebody else, you don't work for yourself, you're just less, you just kind of suck”. That just was like, “If you're an employee you're automatically a lower-class human being. Because I know for me, especially when I first got started in real estate out in the Bay Area, there was like, I don't know, like this elite-ism among aspiring entrepreneurs and existing established entrepreneurs. Where that is getting it right, where that is getting it wrong and kind of how we look at this situation. We're going to unpack that a little bit today and share our thoughts about that whole mindset and that philosophy. Basically, given yourself no other option, but to move forward towards the path of “success”, the place that you want to go. Where you basically cut ties with that permanently so that you can't go back. And anybody who has a job is somehow failing as a person and the only way to handle that situation is to do what they call “burning the ships” or “burning the boats” or “burning the bridge” or whatever you want to call it. I think what makes this kind of tricky is because for somebody who is an entrepreneur and wants to be financially free and wants to do the whole self-employed thing and start their own business, undeniably there's always going to be an element of that, where you do want to get away from your job, and you want to cut the cord and live life on your own terms.īut there's this attitude among a lot of voices online and hardcore business owners where it's like a job is downright evil, like it's wrong. It's this idea of a job, the dreaded “J-O-B” being a curse, something that needs to be shunned and something that needs to be basically moved away from “at all costs” as soon as possible. Today, Jaren and I are going to talk about something that we've sort of noticed and kind of bothered by for many years. By the way, you can find show notes for everything in this episode at /72. Seth: Hey everybody, what's up? This is Seth Williams and Jaren Barnes, and you're listening to the REtipster podcast.
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