From: Annemarie Segaric
Wednesday, 8:30am
Dear Aspiring Business Owner,
I know how hard it can be when you know there is something you're meant to be doing and yet your regular corporate job drains the life right out of you! You feel stifled, stuck, and sick and tired of not making a change.
It's exhausting.
You think about starting your own business. You have every intention of doing something more fulfilling and breaking free of the day to day monotony.
Yet, you stop yourself. You have a surprisingly good day at work and you think maybe this job isn't so bad. You tell yourself you need to be RESPONSIBLE. You can't risk everything you've built right now. You listen to one too many newscasts about the economy telling you how awful things are "out there"...and you get scared.
I know what it's like. If you told me 8 years ago that I'd be an entrepreneur with my own business I would have said, "That sounds great but there's no way!"
You see, I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I had a corporate career that everyone thought was so great (at least on paper). I was (and still am!) a bit of an overachiever. I was focused and determined to have a successful career and great life. I did what I was taught to do. I went to a good school, got a degree in engineering, and landed jobs that paid me more than most people paid in this country. I had a house, a car, I traveled. By all accounts it was the good life. The truth was though, I was really unhappy.
Each day at work I felt so frustrated. I was not engaged in my work. I was angry at myself for being so stuck and blamed my bosses and jobs for my predicament. I switched jobs repeatedly, each time getting a seemingly better position, but found myself just as miserable and disenchanted as before. I hated being treated like a child, being told what to do and how to do it. And on top of it all, the work I was doing seemed so unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
Have you ever felt like that?
The thing was I just didn't belong in the career I was in and yet really didn't know what would truly make me happy.
But after years of searching (and some sleepless nights) I finally figured out my ideal career.
And surprise, surprise it was NOT working for Corporate America.
Nope.
I discovered I was supposed to be my own boss. And now after almost 8 years in business for myself and having taught thousands of clients, I've learned that there are so many of you out there wasting away--literally-in corporate jobs.
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