Christian Osgood argues you should work in your industry before starting a business there. Without firsthand experience, you can't write job descriptions, set success metrics, or compete against people who know the field. Start entry-level, learn the work, then launch.
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Trying to build a business, get financial freedom, and you've never actually had a job in the field that you're trying to make your business in? Highly recommend against it. I've worked with a lot of great people who have no work and no college experience. They're still amazing entrepreneurs, huge visionaries. They typically have no idea how to employ or how to write a position for an employee because they've never done it. They don't even have the concept of how to think about what it would look like to have success in the role because they've never actually had a job. If that is you, you're trying to build a company that takes multiple people, takes multiple employees, you're gonna have a really hard time. Now, if you're trying to do a business like buying real estate, that's easy. If you're trying to manage real estate, again, we're gonna need employees. I tend to see people fail. They have huge vision, but they're not experienced in what they're doing, and they get crushed by people who've actually worked in that field. So if you don't have the experience yet, one of the best things you can do if you want to start a certain company is go work in that company from the bottom up, learn the jobs, work for the skills, not for the money, and then go out and do it on your own.