Self-entrepreneurship is about providing a seed to some unknown territory. You invest it with your vision, performance, and perseverance, expecting it to blossom into a tree that feeds you and also offers an abode to others. According to Anita Roddick who is the founder of The Body Shop, “A vision is something you see but the others don’t. Some people would say that’s a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit”. This visionary drive defines entrepreneurs; it makes an entrepreneur different from any other person – A planner of one’s destiny and a builder of society.
In a world in which linear careers overshadow entrepreneurship, one can detect self-entrepreneurship as a light at the end of the tunnel for the dreaming citizen. Not so much as being someone’s subordinate but as being in charge of your life, carving your future, and making a difference. There are some people who love to think in a different way. their natural works become so astonishing and they are determined actually.
That’s why we can add a quote by Steve Jobs that is, “The people who are crazy enough to think, they can change the world.” Bangladesh is also in a phase of an entrepreneurship era but it is not smooth even now. In many families, parents hope their child will ever land a public sector position or be promoted within a company. People fear starting something uncertain and risky, for example, in business, and the beginning is always met with doubts and fear of failure.
Thanks to Facebook Marketplace, YouTube, eBays or other online stores there are new opportunities. Tales of students and other young people selling items, virtual services, or locally produced goods directly from home are increasingly being heard. However, expectations from the culture still hold many prospective businessmen back as they do not fit traditional gender roles.
Worldwide, self-entrepreneurship is construed as the force of change and economic development. In the USA for instance the startup ecosystems exist enriched by venture capital, incentives supported by the government, as well as a ‘compliance boot camp’. Across the border in India, the sentiment towards entrepreneurship is equally passionate and the successful unicorns are being groomed to disrupt industries. Bangladesh can and should learn from the examples discussed above. Available credits, starting entrepreneurial classes in school, and making entrepreneurial successes more familiar might change the face of the nation’s economy and population.
Richard Branson, an English Business Magnate rolling his words here, “Business opportunities are like buses, there is always another one coming.”
If you say self-entrepreneurship is about producing enterprises only then there will be some correction and that is that self-entrepreneurship is a process of making a difference and making it unique from others. It is about fixing things that need to be fixed and giving people what they need or want. Reflect, in succession, on one or many examples of people who began with limited capital, but with their desire and labor built a business from scratch. These are not just business entities, but establishments founded as traditional practices. From Oprah Winfrey, we can quote, “Never concern yourself with success, instead try to be meaningful and success won’t elude you.”
Lastly, the self-entrepreneurship phase is hard but not an impossible thing. But this phase will lead to tastier sweeter bread if you keep it up. Don’t believe it? Leap and try it for yourself!
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Jemi Sailuk
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YSSE