Small to Feds
MVP
For me it was in not realizing that we all must deal with our personal value systems in business ownership.
I spent 36 years in the Military Industrial Complex and learned a great deal from the large and small companies for whom I worked. This permitted me to be quite successful in my own consulting firm for 10 years at the end of my career.
But I found that I did not have the gut desire to become rich and I always paid everyone else before I paid myself - not necessarily a recipe for success. My value system was not suited for small business ownership.
The most fulfillment I have had in my professional career has been in forming my own non-profit organization in retirement to assist veterans and small businesses free of charge and supporting two other organizations in doing so.
I spent 36 years in the Military Industrial Complex and learned a great deal from the large and small companies for whom I worked. This permitted me to be quite successful in my own consulting firm for 10 years at the end of my career.
But I found that I did not have the gut desire to become rich and I always paid everyone else before I paid myself - not necessarily a recipe for success. My value system was not suited for small business ownership.
The most fulfillment I have had in my professional career has been in forming my own non-profit organization in retirement to assist veterans and small businesses free of charge and supporting two other organizations in doing so.