During the last years, I have spent time both searching jobs and entrepreneuring and, according to that experience, I can add new information about this topic.
I think that job hunting looks more like entrepreneurship than a regular job
What are the similarities between job hunting and entrepreneurship?
- No boss
When we search a job or we entrepreneur we don't have a boss or mentor who tells us what we have to do. Everything we do comes from our own iniciative.
We don't really have schedules and we don't have a place to go everyday, we do our tasks whenever and wherever we want or we find convenient, and we focus on what we think is important.
- Need to sale
In most of the regular jobs, but those that are comercial positions, we don't have to convince anyone to buy anything.
When we search a job, our main goal is convincing someone to buy our product, in this case our work.
The entrepreneur needs to sell its product to clients too, besides developing his product.
- No sales, no food
In a regular job, you meet the schedule and the tasks and you get your salary. When you search a job or you are entrepreneuring, if you don't get sales, you don't get income, no matter the effort or time spent.
To sum up
Job hunting and entrepreneurship are really similar. They need specific skills and habits that are not required for many jobs.
Job hunting has been really hard during the last years, almost as hard as entrepreneurship is, and it does not look like it will improve soon.
Anyone needs to get the required skills to manage oneself, sell its product and get new contacts, even if considering just getting a job, because it is not easy and simple to get one.
