Working is actually a hundred times harder than starting a business

In fact, I really hate topics like entrepreneurship and financing. As for who started a business and who raised funds, I don’t think it’s a big deal. The first one is just choosing to do things on your own, and the second one is just getting other people’s money. The former can be done as long as you can take care of yourself, but the latter is not an easy thing to bear the trust of others. And the point is, financing is not given to you, but to make you make more money back. For many stupid speculators, it seems to be a successful speculation and a quick success, but for a profit and cash lover like me, it is tantamount to putting shackles on myself.

I have always advised against glorifying entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs, thinking that entrepreneurship is a great thing and failure is tragic. 99% of people start a business because they can't find a job or don't want to work. Similarly, about 99% of these people fail in their business because they don't have a clear understanding of themselves. This kind of failure caused by stupidity and ignorance is not tragic at all, just like you can't swim but you go to swim across the Atlantic and end up drowning. Of course, the biggest fatal flaw of entrepreneurship is that you represent the highest level of your company. If you can't even get a senior executive or backbone in a large company, you will know how much value this startup can create. If you spend your mother's money to start a business, it is really a sin.

Most people who think that working is not good have two very small-peasant ideas. One is that you work for others and let the boss take advantage, and you don’t earn all the money yourself. The other is that you work for others and cannot be financially independent, so you might as well try your luck. If it were in ancient times, people would basically become bandits. Fortunately, there are more opportunities in modern society and more room for choice. In fact, most of the value you create is actually a pitfall for the boss, but I have never heard anyone say that I am so incompetent and I don’t deserve the boss’s salary. I think 99% of people think they get too little.

Working part-time is a very difficult thing. Although there are many people working part-time, I think most of them are just exchanging time for money, and there is no pursuit of excellence. It's like cooking. You just cook it and eat it. Although it is called a meal, it is definitely not a profession. This is why we say that many people are not professional.

There are many problems faced by part-time workers, such as limited resources, more performance requirements, complicated interpersonal relationships, colleagues who hold you back, and incompetent superiors. If you can fight your way out of these obstacles, you are actually a real hero. The only thing to worry about is that you will quit and start your own business. Anyway, when I said I would quit, 99% of the people who asked me were asking me if I wanted to start my own business. I was very puzzled and asked, "Can't I just take a break?"

Working part-time is a kind of entrepreneurship, and currently, most successful entrepreneurs are also good at working part-time. This is actually not difficult to understand. Only after working such a big job can you do such a big thing. There are only a few genius entrepreneurs who succeed immediately, but there are many who fail several times. Now these people are also in the tide of entrepreneurship beautification, and they have given themselves a nice name, called serial entrepreneurs... Just like the previous angel investors now call themselves self-media.

The most important factor for part-time jobs is actually the platform. Many platforms may be the heights that you can never reach in your entire life. On such a large platform, you may see more things, more reasons for success and failure, more human struggles and helplessness. These things are not something you can learn by imagination or reading public relations articles. You can only know them by doing them. If you don't know, and you are lucky enough to do well, then you will have to go through most of these detours again. I have always said that it is not a pity for companies that cannot make money to die. It is a pity that those companies that make money and have users will fall apart because of share distribution issues, partners will fall apart, or because they take too big steps, their products and services cannot keep up, and there will be too many people to manage and internal strife. If he has seen similar situations in the same company before, these may not hinder his progress. However, when working, he should still be careful not to steal the boss's limelight and credit, otherwise he will inevitably be sent to Silicon Valley to study.

For young foreigners, starting a business depends on the environment, culture, and guidance. In China, where a restaurant is opened together and becomes big, you have to split it up and open another one on your own. It is unlikely to replicate the entrepreneurial atmosphere and success of the United States. Even if it is possible, it will be strangled in the cradle by the Chinese Internet giants. However, perhaps because there have been too many strangleholds in the past, no one applauds the giants, so there have been more acquisitions recently.

Therefore, working is about control, while starting a business is about searching and creating. The former requires a higher level of professionalism, while the latter requires a higher level of adventurous spirit. Generally speaking, the success rate is the highest with both professionalism and adventurous spirit, and the latter is just a matter of courage. Of course, if you have already started a business, don't think that you are an independent adult. Learn more from people with higher levels, and improve your vision and pattern. This is the first priority, and it will also allow you to go further.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.