Chris WiserSerial Entrepreneur and MSP Growth Catalyst

From Job to Entrepreneur | My $6K Journey

Name: From Job to Entrepreneur | My $6K Journey
Uploaded: 2025-01-09T04:47:16Z
Channel: Chris Wiser
Description: A first-person monologue by Chris Wiser recounting his transition from employment to entrepreneurship after securing his first contract: a…

9 Jan 2025

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A first-person monologue by Chris Wiser recounting his transition from employment to entrepreneurship after securing his first contract: a $6,000-per-month flat-rate deal for 20 hours/week. He chose contracting over a job, embraced a growth mindset, reinvested earnings quickly (hiring a help-desk staffer within two weeks), and views MRR as a valuable foundation despite initial financial strain.

Questions this video answers

$6,000 per month (six grand a month).

20 hours per week.

Within two weeks of receiving the contract.

And I said, let's do this. I'll come on site for 20 hours a week. I want to be my own entity. And it was six grand a month, flat rate. That was my first contract. It was my first deal. Now, I could have taken the job, but because of my reflection and because of my ways of saying, I'm not going to quit, I'm not going to give up, I took myself down the business path and I started to find out MRR is pretty great because that six grand a month. Now granted, I was trading that six grand a month for 20 hours a week, which was not very many, not much money at the time, but it gave me enough money and I immediately invested, like, literally within two weeks of getting that contract, I hired a help desk guy. Now, could I afford a help desk guy at six grand a month and pay myself? No. But because of my belief, because of that mindset, I'm going to take that sacrifice and I'm going to take myself down that path, and I kept going.