Something happened to working a full-time job.
You used to expect stability, and derive a stable income. Whether it was a part-time job or a small business, it felt like you owned your future. And you did.
Today, most work is fragile. Not long-term, rather disposable. Work places you into an invisible agreement between yourself and a freedom. Every month you receive pay while essentially feeling the same you did last month. And if you stop working, the stress starts piling.
For a little over two decades, the writing was on the wall about work. Traditional work worked well for conditions under a factory model. Then came smartphones, social media, and mass adoption of the Internet. The factory model of measuring units of output is no longer compatible in today’s economy.
Add up the time spent waiting to fulfill an arbitrary 8 hours. You should be at least 5 years younger now!
A traditional, 9-5 job still makes sense for many people but its grip will slip. Pensions are long gone, salaries are stale, and inflation keeps eating away at your efforts. People are tired of jobs that flatten out any creative inspirations, and financial or physical mobility. But you are in possession of invaluable tools to own a piece of the future. You can choose to take unconventional paths to own your freedom.
Fortunately for us, a loud computerization revolution has undergone in the past decades. It is now unbelievably efficient and cheap to create your own business as a small team. And own more of your future. However, it’s not enough to just create something but to be directionally correct and understand distribution.
I’ve introduced an invaluable assessment scorecard for motivated entrepreneurs, the Value Escalation Readiness scorecard.
- — Free forever, never pay.
- — Simple and straightforward actionable feedback.
- — You get back insights across 3 critical categories for starting a business.
- — Understand yourself before foregoing into your idea.
- — Provides directional guidance to prevent time waste.
The worse you can do is to dedicate too much time to an idea only to be met with silence. It’s discouraging. And all too common.
The Value Escalation Readiness scorecard exists to prevent it.
With much excitment,
Eloy Lopez
Founder, Founders Reach