authenticentrepreneur
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I am going to start my business......from what I can tell not easy but doable.
Any ideas about why more people don't give it a try?
It seems to have the potential to be lucrative, to be a stepping stone to offer more home services as one builds relationships with customers who trust them.
Some ideas I have thought of:
1) Some people really have issues with taking shit from people/the public (beneath their dignity).....one will eventually have some unreasonable customers who will mistreat you.
2) The work may have a certain blue collar stigma attached to it (there is a reason why many young men who grow up upper middle class go to college, get lots of debt and may or may not get a decent job from it.........rather than becoming a plumber right out of high school which would involve very little or zero debt and virtually guarantee a job......the reason the cultural/due to the blue collar stigma of some jobs).
3) It seems to be a job almost only for men (although I am sure that some female carpet cleaners do exist). That automatically eliminates half of the population.
4) Shyness/being intimidated about going into strangers' homes AND the intimidation of being a business owner......at 38 I have much more confidence than I used to. However at say 22 or even 28 I may not have had the confidence to start a business and to have the level of confidence and assertiveness that may be required.
Any ideas about why more people don't give it a try?
It seems to have the potential to be lucrative, to be a stepping stone to offer more home services as one builds relationships with customers who trust them.
Some ideas I have thought of:
1) Some people really have issues with taking shit from people/the public (beneath their dignity).....one will eventually have some unreasonable customers who will mistreat you.
2) The work may have a certain blue collar stigma attached to it (there is a reason why many young men who grow up upper middle class go to college, get lots of debt and may or may not get a decent job from it.........rather than becoming a plumber right out of high school which would involve very little or zero debt and virtually guarantee a job......the reason the cultural/due to the blue collar stigma of some jobs).
3) It seems to be a job almost only for men (although I am sure that some female carpet cleaners do exist). That automatically eliminates half of the population.
4) Shyness/being intimidated about going into strangers' homes AND the intimidation of being a business owner......at 38 I have much more confidence than I used to. However at say 22 or even 28 I may not have had the confidence to start a business and to have the level of confidence and assertiveness that may be required.
