These days my head is furiously buried in the pages of Dan Pink‘s Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself.
It’s a very captivating read, about how the world economy is gearing itself in a new direction, where the majority of workers will find themselves self-employed and the markers for success will have to be readjusted.
For me, it is now only a matter of time.
The other day I was talking to a friend’s father, who has been self-employed for many years, dabbling in insurance, real estate and also his own software company, which he runs in partnership with a software engineer based in pakistan. I remarked to my wife how I have a handful of friends who do this.
She told me that there are certain people (of a certain background origin) who will only work for themselves. it is against their belief to work for someone else, owing to their forefathers’ time, when they were farmers or fishermen who only depended on their own catch or crop for survival. I find this interesting. Anyone has further information on this?
27 April 2006 at 11:35 am
Entrepreneurship. Something they keep drilling into us here at school. *shudders*
Working for yourself is fun enough, though I don’t think they inherit that trait from their forefathers. Maybe they just got sick and tired of having to answer to busok beer-belly bosses.
And even if they do work for themselves because of their background, why get such boring businesses like computer software and such? Farming and fishing still very fun what…The people in Indonesia are doing very well with their padi fields. In war, they will never go hungry. Kiter lah yang kena makan all our computer bits.
sorry if im ranting, i really want a farm. Say NO! to entrepreneurshit!