Last few months have been very interesting, first I decided to take up a job sadly due to global slow down it did not work out. Now I have been offered a job which was beyond my expectations. The biggest telecom firm in India and world's 3rd largest telecom firm offered me Vice President position to head their Sub-Saharan Africa. They offered me money which I couldn't even imagine. However, I have spent last 7 years learning the traits of being an entrepreneur. It's a totally different thing than working for someone else.
I have spent last few days thinking about my future and contemplating on which is a better decision for me.
On one hand I have an opportunity to lead a major world brand into an almost virgin territory. Earn a lot of money. Make a brand for myself in the corporate world. Providing opportunity to millions to connect and give them better communication.
On the other, I have my own dreams, the feeling of contributing to India's economy, feeling of my 40 employees having a sense of pride in me and the pleasure that you get when you feel that you have made a family better by your work. My own dreams about my own company.
Being an entrepreneur has taught me a lot more than any education or any job could have ever taught me.
The struggles to make money, to learn to cope up with the debts, to learn how to deal with bad news day in and day out.
I had lived alone from the very begining and hence I am not averse to lonliness, being a
To learn to loose is something that I could have never learnt if I hadn't been running my own firm. The struggle for money to pay your employees has its own high. To loose and still keep your head high is a very tough thing.
I am proud of myself to have done it twice.
So now I am totally confused, should I choose money (a job of almost $500K in this market is not a small thing) and simpler life over the more complicated life of starting a successful firm on my own. Should I just leave everything behind that I have built in last seven years.
Lets say where life takes me.
Yesterday a girl who works at my office gave me a compliment which made me feel elated, looking at her smiling face I thought that I should sing :
aaj kaho to mod dun badhkarrr, waqt ke dhaareeee
I am leaning towards entrepreneurship just to feel that elation.
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