In the past years I have spoken, and had intense discussions with so many industry professionals from various trades and professions. On reaching 10 years of work. I have understood a major difference.
Lot of industry professionals who work for large cooperations carry a lot of experience and are very willing to share such experiences. They are groomed they have huge amounts of exposure, and left to do just their job. They immerse themselves in the Job Title they hold and grow aggressively or steadily according to their own pace and time.
Then I have met the current day entrepreneurs and listened to a lot of their challenges too. I have seen the fascinations they have when industry professionals talk and share knowledge.
Recently I started challenging the industry professionals if they carry such experience they are willing to gamble that experience see if they can invest time and money on those entrepreneurs. If they are confident with who they are what are even those who are nothing can be made to something. None of them took the risk.
I personally have experience in working for giants in my industry. To date I see it as a blessing all I learnt, all the knowledge I owned over the years, and surviving so many deep ends. This is because someone else paid the bills, someone out there never made me worry how a vendor is paid, someone just made me the best at my job, never made me worry about the cash flow issues, never made me think how are all the employees paid, do we have enough resources for the teams.
Yes you people who are managers and higher management are telling yes I do think. As a giant is already a full grown adult with cogs already in play. You are not worrying about cash flow, can we just pour money on research to better push a product or gamble on this new risk we are thinking about.
This is all the comforts of working for giants, yes they build great industry leaders. I have rarely met such professionals with the balls to push on their own or willing to challenge themselves to see if I am no longer with a giant can I cut it? Does my skills I own help me if I was working or starting out on something small?
So there are pros and cons on both ends, one learns the bigger picture by learn the problems of everything; paying your taxes, how do I pay with cash flow issues, I have invoiced so much collected so little how do I take an overdraft to pay my employees? Which rate of exchange rate would be beneficial? The other learns the discipline, learns to handle a crowd, gets exposure gets a hold on what is PR, learns to train their members, take the perks on pitching crazy risk ideas and someone take the risk on behalf on them and fund it.
Learn to evolve and learn from one another, try the spectrums see how you can learn from both. Never get caught up in the hype of what you think how green the grass is on the other side.
Cheers!
LISWITH
