What even is a “regular” job? Semantics aside, the heart of our question is about those moments when the stress of entrepreneurship is mounting – do you ever sit back and wonder what if you had just been working for someone else, what life would have been like without all the stress?

Nikki Bryan

I like to think of myself as someone that is adaptable in any situation. I have been an employee, a manager, and now a business owner. I have been a business owner for almost 7 years now, which is longer than I have been an employee and yet there are days that I wish I could work a regular job. Operating a business can sometimes be extremely exhausting as much as it is rewarding. When you are a business owner, there isn’t an option to clock out, go home and never think about the issues of the day. Read more>>

Cortney De Voe

Independence: Something I have yearned for since I was going door-to-door by myself selling custom-made flip flops at eight years old, “Cortney’s Flop Shop” was the name. Then again, at eighteen years old I started a makeup business where I hand-pressed makeup palettes that I shipped all over the United States, “Makeupaholics” was the name. Now that I have spent years trying to find my passion, I have finally settled on a career that has changed my life. Being a business owner means that I am a Jack of All Trades: Read more>>

MEG SAHDALA

One of the major reasons people decide to leave corporate world is to have more time and spend more time with the family. It was the exact same reasoning for me but little that I knew…I was switching from 9am-6pm job to 24/7 job! Owning an animal rescue is like living your life at the Emergency Room. The phone NEVER stops ringing. At the present moment we are receiving daily anywhere from 200-400 phone calls, text messages, Whatsapps, Facebook Messengers, Instagram DMs and emails. We also recently opened TikTok page and Twitter. Read more>>

Amani Farrell

Yes i am happy as a business owner, but it is not easy. Of course there are days well you may not receive any sales or any acknowledgement but during those days you have to continue to be motivated and have faith that your business will succeed no matter what. I have recently came across the thought of having a regular job but in my heart i know that being an entrepreneur and hairstylist will always be apart of me. Read more>>

Sic Owens

Yeah I think about it all the time. Ive never had a job and dropped out in middle school to Pursue art and didn’t really have that high school experience but it wasn’t really essential to what I’m doing so I don’t really care. Everyday I just get reminded why I’m doing what I’m doing and who I do it for so that keeps me going. I just like to think there’s a alternative universe version of me that said f*ck that fashion shit and just went the school route & got a cool little 9-5 so that’s good enough for me Read more>>

Khadijah Page

It takes faith, integrity, and self-acceptance to rise above any difficulties you may face in life to achieve both short and long-term goals. Is self-doubt present? Sure. Am I happy? At times. Thoughts of transitioning to a full-time job occurs daily when clients schedule appointments and no show. Clients cancel appointments five minutes prior to their scheduled times or clients taking the opportunity to express their emotions during their appointment and all I can do is be their comfort space. Read more>>

Carolina L. Mery

I’ve thought about whether being a business owner is what I really want 8 million times. There are so many times I thought to myself that if I just had a 9-5 job, that I wouldn’t have the amount of responsibilities that owning a business requires. I could go home and not have to think about work,
I wouldn’t have to worry about staff issues, figuring out what to do when business was bad, I could go on vacation and not have to check in with the office, I would have a steady paycheck whether business was good or bad, I wouldn’t have to make tough decisions, if I didn’t like it anymore, I could just get another job, I would get sick days, etc. Read more>>

Gigi Medina

This business has amazingly changed my life forever in a lot of different ways, I absolutely Love my job and my passion is to make people happy by bringing confidence with my beauty services. Having a regular 9 to 5 job never goes through my mind, just in nightmares hahaha At the beginning being a business owner was definitely scary, there were times of lots of personal insecurities making me think that I wasn’t enough to keep up a business running by own. Read more>>

Mark Phillips

In short “YES” however, being an entrepreneur or business owner definitely has its highs and lows. I do sometimes think about what it would be like to have a regular job again but the way my flexibility in my schedule is unmatched by a traditional 9-5. I say that not to knock any individual working a 9-5 but I realized that schedule did not aline with the life I am building for myself. The last time I had the thought of going back to the traditional schedule was a little bit before covid. Read more>>