I am very happy to have had a positive experience with entrepreneurship. Actually, entrepreneurship led to me getting my first and most enjoyable job in high school. I grew up in a small town full of local businesses. Luckily, we were good family friends with one of those small business owners. He and his wife realized a need for a great new burger restaurant that could beat out the big franchises in town. So, they created Tasty's Fresh Burgers and Fries. It was an instant hit. A normal day included a line out the door! They also chose to hire almost exclusively high school students in order to give many young men and women an exciting job opportunity. I was one of the lucky few to be hired early on at this restaurant. Their leadership was phenomenal and I never had a boring day working. I miss being able to clock in daily with some of my best friends and have great experiences with customers. Since then, I have worked other part-time jobs. I was a youth basketball referee, I worked at the midtown location of Relish (terrible job, don't try it), and I worked at a private ocean club as a server. However, none of those could top my experience at Tasty's.
A Young Entrepreneur
Personally, I enrolled in ENT3003 for two reasons. First, I'm a business major and needed to pick up an elective (probably a reason for most of the people in the course). Second, though, I'm new to the business school and am exploring different opportunities in many fields of business. Entrepreneurship is extremely intriguing to me not only because of the basic "be your own boss" and "make your destiny" stuff, but also because I would have the ability to not only fix other peoples' problems, but fix my own as well. An entrepreneurship idea could stem from one of my own day-to-day bugs. Through this course, I hope to learn the basic methods of turning my ideas into businesses.
Jake,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your post and how you were able to work with a close person. I had a similar experience where I worked for a buddy of mine who sold supplements on Amazon. As with you, I am in this class for my major and it was one of my recommended classes. As for the Relish job, thank you for the warning and I will be sure not to work for them in the future. Overall, you had a very intriguing post!