I recently read a blog post written by a young entrepreneur who runs her own marketing agency. She wrote about those obvious elements we entrepreneurs or entrepreneur-minded people recognize so well; how we care about of own company and people, like it is our own child, 24/7 you might say and sometimes even too much. But she also mentioned that you might find yourself thinking why are you doing that? Burning you as being such a 24/7 caring entrepreneur? Putting the concept of an entrepreneur into a form of something bad, like missing your kids and family because you are running your own company. I am not buying that. Not for a second.

I am entrepreneur-minded man. And I am that 24/7. But it doesn’t mean that I cannot work for someone else, and I have done so many times, anything from small companies to global giants. But every time I work, I work the same way. Too much, my wife would say; because it is for someone else, mainly. It is a state of mind; when you work, you really work and you work for something better, bigger or faster. It can be your own company or it’s not - that’s not the point. In so many cases such a people do find their way to run their own companies, small or giants. But it’s not the entrepreneurship that makes people running out of time they are supposed to spend with their kids or families, as this young entrepreneur suggested. It’s the amount of hours you spend with your work and it doesn’t matter if it’s your own business or somebody’s business. Take a look on the mirror and don’t blame the entrepreneurship.

I hate these stereotype stories about entrepreneurs who never had their holidays; never spent any times with their families and when they got old, they realized they have grandchildren. And next thing they do is to write a book about the success of their company and how they lost their families. Again, same people would have done exactly the same while working for someone else. Entrepreneurship is not the one to blame on that! When someone says that getting back to work as a normal employee is like getting your life back, I would say that you made your mistake much earlier. You didn’t have the state of mind that is required to be, act and live like an entrepreneur. But I would also say that I know the way you work. And I am not sure you would have made your success under somebody’s roof either, would you? But was it your choice being a business owner that destroyed your life and family? I don’t believe that, honestly. When you know the value of your own family, you know it. It has nothing to do with your work career.

Every company has its routes in entrepreneurship. Without such an attitude this world is not getting anywhere. But it’s your behavior not the attitude that takes you into a “24/7 – thirty years nonstop work – heart attack – goodbye” style of entrepreneurship. This is a new world, not the one we had 100 or 50 years ago. This is a world where there is a entrepreneur and a corporation, a human being and an entity. That doesn’t mean that we are not having a life. We might have more than the ones who choose a corporate life.

Cheers for entrepreneurs! Cheers for new companies! Cheers for family! Cheers for future!