Career in Business

One of the most common but toughest challenge I face during Career Consultation is to convince or motivate someone for doing his own business rather than working in job-setup. The reasons given by people for not being able to do the same are common and repetitive. So, I just thought of writing about it in a post and referring to this post whenever someone again raises the same concerns to me.

1. Conditioning - I think the first and most important factor for someone to avoid business as a career option is our conditioning from childhood. Since our school days, this insecure society plays the most cruel game on children by making them insecure. The continuous message which we get from society, teachers, parents and peers (barring few exceptions) is that "how will you survive if you don't have a job"? We are told from childhood that if you have a job then you are independent. Sorry to say but it is the biggest lie. If you are in job then you are dependent on your employer. You are never independent in a job setup. Now, if you are listening to the same things again and again for 25-30 years then now at 30 years, it is very difficult to uncondition yourself. But it is difficult not impossible. If mind can be conditioned then it can be unconditioned too with proper counselling, life circumstances and examples of other people.

Also, if parents really love their child and want them to live an independent life then they can do reverse-conditioning of next generation by telling children that survival is in God's hands and all they need to choose is a career which gives them happiness and satisfaction. Money is natural outcome of any work. I always say that there is no work in world which doesn't pay you money if you are doing it with quality. So, keep your options open and don't ever think that losing your job = losing your life.

2. Fixed Income - As I see, the biggest hurdle in going towards business from job setup is this. Fixed Salary credited at the end of the month become the biggest psychological block. Again, society has given us a compartmentalized life where around the age of mid-30s we have a few EMIs, Premiums and monthly bills to pay. In that situation, fixed monthly salary looks like a big support or relief. I agree, as I have also come out from that type of psychological block. But it is a negative way of thinking. If your income is not fixed then it means that it can be more than your monthly salary also (telling from my own experience   ). In business, we can earn as much as we work but in job we earn only up to the limits decided by employer. One of the benefits of business is that once your business has sustained initial one or two years then it is bound to grow and you are bound to earn more than your job salary.

3. No Experience - One of the reason/excuses given by people for not going into business is that they don't have any business experience or business mindset. Well, then ask yourself if you were born with job-setup experience or mindset of working under others? We all learn something by doing it. You learnt working in jobs after actually entering in a job. We learn any sport or anything in life by doing it. So, you will get business experience also by doing business and when you interact with people daily through business then mindset automatically develops.

4. No Family History - Then people like to say that none in their family ever did any business, so they can't do it. Well, none in my whole family lineage tried to read their own chart but still I am doing it on daily basis. And if it is really so that we can do only those things which our parents or grandparents did then I don't think generation of our grandparents ever used Facebook, Twitter, Email or Internet itself. Can we even dream of surviving without these facilities? The next generation is not supposed to follow the foot-steps of earlier generation. They are supposed to move ahead of earlier generation. That's why they are GenNext. Just think this much that if my grandfather passed Xth standard somewhere in 20th century and today if I stop my education at Xth standard today citing his example then were is the improvement or evolution between 3 generations?

5. Financial Issues - I agree that finance is a big hurdle in starting any business but we can start it at a small scale and can develop it further after seeing the response. I remember that I resigned from my job keeping in mind the PF amount I was going to get as the survival package till the time I start getting client. Basically, I want to say that at least prepare yourself mentally & make a plan for your business and you will see that automatically, like-minded people will join you. I said it earlier also, till date I haven't spent a single penny for learning astrology but I have got software, courses and books of all famous astrologers from many of my friends free of cost. So, it is all about preparing yourself in mind.

6. At the same time, I am not belittling the importance of jobs. Life is inconsistent. There are times in life when job is necessary and there are times in life where business is the way to go. I am just telling that keep your options open. Don't have a fixed idea that you can't survive without a job or fixed salary. If your chart, dasha and transits are indicating towards business and you are finding it difficult to continue in job for various reasons then be open to that thought of being in business. Don't resist the change as that causes all stress. Flow with current.

Last but not the least, we need people from all fields. Just imagine if we only had job oriented careers then we won't have had any sportsperson, musician, singer, movie-makers, poets or astrologers   . World would have been so boring and one-dimensional.

Hope this helps. 

Thanks,

SPB