Comments on: Entrepreneur vs. Employee: Why can’t everyone be entrepreneurs? http://attyatwork.com/why-cant-everyone-be-an-entrepreneur/ The personal blog of Atty. Fred Pamaos Wed, 23 May 2012 07:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Phlippine corporate lawyer http://attyatwork.com/why-cant-everyone-be-an-entrepreneur/comment-page-1/#comment-16315 Phlippine corporate lawyer Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:26:05 +0000 http://www.attyatwork.com/why-cant-everyone-be-an-entrepreneur/#comment-16315 everyone could be an entrepreneur. All it takes is determination everyone could be an entrepreneur. All it takes is determination

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]]> By: fritz http://attyatwork.com/why-cant-everyone-be-an-entrepreneur/comment-page-1/#comment-7917 fritz Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:12:10 +0000 http://www.attyatwork.com/why-cant-everyone-be-an-entrepreneur/#comment-7917 Warrior, I agree with your take on Chinese family and especially on OFW phenomenon. I am one of those who is guilty of the latter. Warrior,

I agree with your take on Chinese family and especially on OFW phenomenon. I am one of those who is guilty of the latter.

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]]> By: warrior http://attyatwork.com/why-cant-everyone-be-an-entrepreneur/comment-page-1/#comment-7882 warrior Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:25:05 +0000 http://www.attyatwork.com/why-cant-everyone-be-an-entrepreneur/#comment-7882 Most of us have no training to become an entrepreneur. Our school system have primed us to become workers. When we entered college, most of us have the outlook that when we graduate, we'll find ourselves a stable job. This kind of stable job we dreamed of is the career type of job where we can settle down and retire from it a couple of years later. It's a different case in China. Most families are in some business of their own. A child in a Chinese family gets exposed as early as the elementary grades to the rudiments of his dad's business. He is also expected to help out in the store during semestral and Christmas breaks. We are not exposed to the correct attitudinal formation to become an entrepreneur. The OFW phenomenon may be consider proof of the Filipino prepartation to become a worker, not an entrepreneur. While there are lots of success stories about entrepreneurs, there seems to be an increasing number of start-up business failures. Books have been written on entrepreneural success stories. But the failures are the ones we come to know about only because the guy involved is a friend or the acquaintance of a friend. The failures don't find their stories in books but are passed on verbally in whispers. Even then, I think that the entrepreneur movement has gained momentum. I hope that it will just be a matter of time when more of us will become entrepreneurs. Most of us have no training to become an entrepreneur. Our school system have primed us to become workers. When we entered college, most of us have the outlook that when we graduate, we’ll find ourselves a stable job. This kind of stable job we dreamed of is the career type of job where we can settle down and retire from it a couple of years later.

It’s a different case in China. Most families are in some business of their own. A child in a Chinese family gets exposed as early as the elementary grades to the rudiments of his dad’s business. He is also expected to help out in the store during semestral and Christmas breaks.

We are not exposed to the correct attitudinal formation to become an entrepreneur. The OFW phenomenon may be consider proof of the Filipino prepartation to become a worker, not an entrepreneur.

While there are lots of success stories about entrepreneurs, there seems to be an increasing number of start-up business failures. Books have been written on entrepreneural success stories. But the failures are the ones we come to know about only because the guy involved is a friend or the acquaintance of a friend. The failures don’t find their stories in books but are passed on verbally in whispers.

Even then, I think that the entrepreneur movement has gained momentum. I hope that it will just be a matter of time when more of us will become entrepreneurs.

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]]> By: mameejhy http://attyatwork.com/why-cant-everyone-be-an-entrepreneur/comment-page-1/#comment-7876 mameejhy Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:42:09 +0000 http://www.attyatwork.com/why-cant-everyone-be-an-entrepreneur/#comment-7876 because entrepreneurship requires courage... to start something from scratch... to leave a financially stable job... to face the unknown. and, not everyone has that courage. because entrepreneurship requires courage… to start something from scratch… to leave a financially stable job… to face the unknown. and, not everyone has that courage.

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