I would rather be a startup wolf than a working dog.

Of course, this statement is quite extreme, and many working friends don't want to hear it. But if we think carefully, there's some truth in what this guy said.

Wolves, in their quest for freedom, would rather maintain their independent personalities and free thoughts. They run on the vast grasslands every day, hunting cattle and sheep at will, enjoying all the delicious food nature provides as much as possible. After eating their fill, they lie on the grass, not thinking about anything, enjoying the sun and the free air. They are the masters of the grassland, and they have dignity. However, when the severe cold comes, they must learn to resist the cold of the snowstorm, learn to find prey under thick snow piles, often endure the pain of hunger, and always worry about freezing or starving to death. The life of a wolf can be described as half water, half fire.

The life of a dog is just the opposite. Normally, dogs can only eat the leftovers from their master's table, be shouted at by their master to busy themselves everywhere, without freedom, without dignity, only wagging their tails pitifully. The life of a dog is guaranteed. Although they never eat anything delicious, they don't have to worry about hunger or cold when winter comes, with their master's protection. Dogs feel grateful and vow to remain loyal to their master in the next life. Even if their master beats and scolds them at will, most dogs dare not make a sound because obedience and tameness are the marks of a dog. Compromise is the label of a dog. To keep a stable job and ensure a fixed ration when they are old, they accept everything!

If we compare people in real life, I estimate that most of us live the life of a dog - stable and comfortable but never fully satisfied. We want to leave the doghouse of our employer, but lack the courage to burn our boats!

I feel that the career choices of young people in reality are mostly to be "working dogs" rather than "entrepreneurial wolves." Perhaps many friends will say, where do fresh graduates have the capital and experience to start a business? The best choice is to work in a company for a few years, accumulate some experience and funds, and then start your own business if you get the chance after a few years.

In fact, such thinking proves to be very wrong. After a college graduate works in a unit for a few years, he not only doesn't earn the money needed for entrepreneurship, but also cannot learn the experience and skills required for entrepreneurship. What you learn in a working life is basically useless for entrepreneurship because the perspectives are different, the ways of thinking are different, and the experiences gained are also different. It can only be said this way: after a few years of working, the only thing you gain improvement in is the technical skills of working, but what entrepreneurship needs least is technical skills.

Even more frightening is that after a few years of working, young people generally lose the passion for entrepreneurship and the courage of a young bull who fears no tiger. They increasingly indulge in the workplace and cannot extricate themselves. Later, the idea of entrepreneurship can only stay in their hearts forever, becoming a permanent regret. When they reach their 40s and are laid off by their boss, they regret why they didn't start their own business 20 years ago!

So how high are the requirements to be an "entrepreneurial wolf"?

My answer is: as long as you have the concept of being an entrepreneurial wolf, you can still succeed in starting a business even if you only have 100 yuan in your pocket!

How much money did the early Wenzhou people have when they went out to do business? Wasn't the first pot of gold earned by exchanging eggs and iron pots? You only have 100 yuan in your pocket, but you can at least set up a stall on the street. In winter, you can sell socks and gloves, and in summer, you can sell pineapples. When you have more funds, you can do barbecue or something like that. Anyway, no matter how little money you have, you can walk on the path of entrepreneurship. The key is whether you want to be an entrepreneurial wolf?

A working life and an entrepreneurial life must be different.

Over time, the personalities of workers and entrepreneurs will have greater and greater differences.

We ask ourselves sincerely, don't friends who have worked for a long time sometimes feel more anxious and afraid of the unfamiliar outside world, afraid of the danger of unemployment, and their hearts become more sensitive and fragile. Their mentality not only gradually becomes tired and lazy, but the whole person loses their sharpness and spirit, and can only comfort themselves with the idea of contentment and detachment from fame and profit. But life becomes increasingly mediocre, the economic burden on the family becomes heavier, housing and children's education gradually become the economic ropes around their necks, tightening more and more, making it hard to breathe, so they adjust their mindset and gradually adapt to the positioning of small urban insects, thinking they are originally ordinary people, why should ordinary people disturb themselves, getting rich is someone else's business, they don't have that destiny.

The most feared thing is hearing the news that the company's performance is bad and layoffs are coming. The most urgent thing is to get along well with the leader, persist in learning flattery and sycophancy, adapting to local customs. Their thoughts become numb, so they just follow the crowd. After all, the bowl of rice is in the hands of the leader or the boss. If they want to kick you out, you have to go.

The second most feared thing is seeing one's age increase day by day, but one's work skills have not improved at all. Although the salary increases with seniority, looking at those energetic new young university students who do a lot of work for such a small salary, the boss's reminders ring in their ears: look at how young people eat less and do more work, you old revolutionaries are getting worse with age. No wonder, the result of a working life is that the older you get, the more devalued you become, especially in the 40-50 age group, which is the most tragic stage of one's career, always on the brink of disaster, like walking through a minefield, easily leading to layoffs and unemployment.

Some people say that the past ten years were the peak period for blue-collar workers to be laid off, and the next 10-20 years will be the peak period for white-collar workers to be laid off. Do you think reading university makes you an elite? Society is constantly progressing, and your knowledge structure, physical fitness, and professional concepts are already inferior to newly graduated university students. Bosses are realistic and will definitely lay off white-collar workers in the 40-50 age group first when facing a crisis.

So having a stable job now, you may feel safe, but it's like having a time bomb planted beside you. After more than ten years, it will explode, and the pain and cost of unemployment at that time will be 100 times crueler than now.

Actually, on the surface, the actual risks of entrepreneurship seem much higher than working. But in the long run, the risks brought by working are higher.

The risk of entrepreneurship is losing the expected income from working in the next few years, and even having to pay back part of the money borrowed after bankruptcy. But after all, you're young, able to fight again after repeated failures, drawing nutrients and experience from failure, improving your business level and ability each time, gradually integrating into the group of businessmen. Your vision and experience accumulate day by day, eventually breaking through from quantitative change to qualitative change. Once you truly enter the business circle, your future career will basically be smooth sailing. You'll earn more and more money, accumulate more and more wealth, and your own value can be maximized.

On the contrary, continuing a working life means peace and quiet in the next few years, but in fact, you are continuously depreciating and shrinking, not getting stronger. The longer you work, the more timid and fearful you become. After more than ten years, a slight misstep could result in being fired, unemployed, and laid off. Which risk is bigger?

Young and passionate hearts set out on the journey of life, and it's actually not as simple as you imagine.

We have nothing, absolutely nothing, except youth and a heart full of passion. Being passionate for a moment is not enough.

In a society where the weak are meat and the strong eat, lacking a special skill makes you no better than social dregs, indistinguishable from beggars.

Thought determines action, and action determines results.

Most people are giants in words but dwarfs in action.

People with high IQs are more likely to fall into this paradox and cannot extricate themselves.

It seems that God is fair; while granting wisdom, He often takes away bravery.

Therefore, only a few people in the world enjoy a wonderful life.

Let's describe the mentality of those who continue to work for others.

They say they are patiently waiting, waiting for the real opportunity. Wise men think deeply and act cautiously. They have been waiting for conditions to mature, even though flowers bloom and fall again and again. But until now, they haven't waited for the right timing, the conditions haven't matured, and the quality of real-life hasn't improved.

Remember, there's a very pessimistic Greek folk song: "The sun god Apollo is a warrior, he can knock down fierce enemies with one punch, but he can't change his own fate. Prometheus is a wise god, he managed to steal fire from Zeus secretly and teach those poor people to see light, but he himself was pecked at the heart and liver by eagles. This is the joke of fate!" This is an example of people believing that their strength cannot overcome their fate and change reality.

Working friends who rely on odd jobs to make ends meet are not without the desire to change their current lives. They feel the urgency and want to change their "poverty," but they always have fear because they have never had the experience and practice of independently controlling their own destinies. It's like someone who has never used a computer before, fearing that pressing the wrong switch or button might burn out the computer, break the keyboard with too much force, or encounter a virus as soon as they go online. In fact, things aren't that scary. For those who fear computers, the most important thing is to plug in the power and turn it on in order.

Of course, we workers are always responsible for the work itself, for the enterprise, and for the boss, so we need to wait for conditions to mature. In fact, promoting these conditions often consumes a lot of energy and delays a lot of time. Sometimes, before the conditions mature, the surrounding environment has changed, the old conditions haven't been reached, and new problems arise. As a result, we are at a loss and end up doing nothing. Therefore, for workers, the most important thing is to understand that we must act first and think later!

Steering the course of life, spreading success!