Build a Business: Why?

     How you guarantee yourself success and employment in a decade. The economy these days is constantly shapeshifting, and not always ideal, so a question often asked, especially by young people starting out, is how do you make your own way in the world? That is never as precise of an answer as people would like, but let's get into a few important things to consider.

     College is an important thing to consider, if you would like to become a doctor, a lawyer, or something as sophisticated as it requires a degree for, however, fewer and fewer things have required college degrees for the last century. It is important to have some education in the field you’d like to enter, but enough to sound like you know what you’re doing is enough for a job application, and to start your own business, which may be a far better avenue.

     Starting your own business does take time, dedication, trial and error, and does not always result in success. However, a job with a steady income doesn’t always pan out either, a simple routine oriented office or factory job can potentially be replaced with the ever-growing technology, and you can be much more successful if you never go into that field in the first place.

     There are many benefits to starting your own business. Contributing to the economy, doing things you actually care about, being your own boss, likely potential for larger profits, choosing and customizing what you specialize in, which is beneficial even if your business doesn’t pan out, and your fruitful, useful life experiences. 

     Some of the most universal, simple tips for starting your own business include, act confident, like you know what you’re doing, your customers will believe you. Look nice, in an online business present your brand in an appealing manner. In a job that requires you to see customers in person, present yourself how you want others to perceive you, whether your business is selling things on a street to start, or building your own company.

     Do your research, find your calling, preferably a few things you’re passionate about, adapt them to you, and research what you can do with what you already have in your inventory of skills. You don’t want to know a little bit about everything on the planet, you want to know enough about what you love to present yourself as passionate and smart in a few things that can be useful to the economy, that’s what is most useful to you.

     Technology; technology keeps growing, and is slowly taking over the world, so in a few years from now, maybe in just a decade, how are you going to compete with technology? Don’t compete with it. Use what’s in your world to your advantage, perhaps that’s by building an online business, perhaps it’s selling the latest tech, or teaching others how to use products that involve seemingly complicated gadgets. Or, if your calling has nothing to do with tech in the first place, then why do you need to compete with it? If you want to make human connections, blog about complicated topics, be artistic, that’s what tech can’t do. Tech can perform simple tasks, and simplify large tasks that take precision, technology doesn’t have the nuance that people do.

     Any field that works largely in the humanities should not need to compete with technology at all. Art, music, history, philosophy, literature. All concepts too nuanced and based on creativity and morality to be taken over by technology. Use the things in the world around you, like technology, to your advantage.

     Do what you love, love what you do. It may be a cliche’ but it’s a cliche’ for a reason. Contribute to the world around you, and make a difference, you can make a lot more money doing what you want to be doing than by going to college just to sit at a desk nine to five. Even if you want to be a doctor or a lawyer, having your own business makes you more sophisticated, helps you out of that college debt, and gets you better life experience. That's how you guarantee yourself success and employment in a decade.