Starting A Business Takes Time
By Desty on Dec 2, 2007 in Commentary, Featured
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Everyone who starts a business hopes and prays that the business takes off and is a success. The United States has a long history of small business owners, from the mom and pop grocery store owners all the way to the small start ups from someone’s garage to become a mega corporation (Apple or Microsoft anyone?).
Whereas in the past generations, schools helped prime their students for the real world, within recent decades schools have started worring about their students’ emotions and self esteem. While someone’s self esteem is important, the schools need to primarily prepare students for the real world.
What is the real world doing or not doing for their students?
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They should change the things that they teach now in school, or else we will see more unemployed people in the future
I believe so too, but in a round-about way. Too many people look to a job to be the end-all be-all of their income. If that job goes away, bye bye income!
Today’s schools aren’t giving their students the tools to start or own their own business. They’re cranking out future employees.
Start your own business, but do it part-time. Keep your day job and start a business on the side. Build that business up and eventually you can move over to running it full time!
I always felt growing up that I was merely being groomed for working for the man instead of working for myself. I am glad that there are so many decent blogs and bloggers out there in the world today that are trying to help entrepreneurs succeed. I would still love to work in the health care setting,but when I think of the hierarchy of the health care field and all the ego’s in the hospital working for myself seems so much more appealing.
Maybe it wasn’t meant to be for me to work in the health care field after all.
Oh now onto what they are teaching our kids. In my sons class instead of teaching them the right way to count money they are using P for penny, N for nickle, and D for dime with the letters inside a circle.
Now who on this planet in the real world goes up to the counter and thinks I need two P’s to pay for this. They need to show them the actual currency that they are working with along with the amount next to the coin.
I mean I for one don’t go to the store and buy a soda and say oh I need 4 q’s to get a soda out of the machine. I wasn’t the greatest at math but I do know that if I had been taught the method they are teaching now vs how my grandfather taught my to count money back then I would have had my grandfather going up to the school and pitching a bitch fit.
There are other things I could go on a rant about but I will save that for another time and place.
it takes time much time.