Why Everyone Should Work for a Startup at Least Once
Working for a new company educates employees on the overall uncertainty of a workforce in flux
By | Pushpendra Mehta | www.entrepreneur.com
During the 2008 economic downturn, I quit an incredible job to become an online news media and digital publishing entrepreneur.
While I have worked with big enterprises in the past, it was only when I was exposed to the world of startups that is an excellent breeding ground for skills that I was able to survive recurring economic slowdowns. Here are four reasons why you should do the same…
New companies are better at managing uncertainty
Unlike employees of large corporations that enjoy the stability of working for an established company, startup employees face chaos, ambiguity, doubts and contingencies more frequently than employees at a large organization. This leads to flexibility and ingenuity in decision-making. If you can predict better, you can control the outcome to adeptly survive the unknown, the unsure and the hard knocks that accompany times of adversity.
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Finding security in insecurity
Startups teach you how to live with stress and pressure and how to hustle or come up with creative or clever solutions. It teaches you to become bold, take risks, fail, set your own directions and move fast. This will make you self-reliant, persistent, resilient, quick, nimble and execution-driven. It will serve as the most effective conduit to keep the reins of your life in your hands and provide a fertile ground for a first foray into entrepreneurship when you are forced to do so and can’t find a job.