When times are good it’s easy to feel like entrepreneurship is the only path for you, but what about the times when your hit with multiple crises at once? We wondered if all entrepreneurs have moments when they wonder whether they should have gone with (or stuck to) a more standard job where they worked for someone else.

Nica Quinn

Being a full-time freelancing, unconventional artist with big visions is a dream come true, however, it’s not without it’s hardships and creative lulls. There are well-known stigmas about being an artist, a creative– the notion of being a “starving artist,” or that really difficult “writer’s block”, or even just the ebbs and flows of creativity. Read more>>

Julius Schlosburg

Wow – I think about this all the time! When I quit my day job, I was very excited to have the flexibility that running my own little business could afford. And there is certainly a high degree of freedom – I can work when I want, I can choose my clients to some extent, I can work in a variety of locations and with the equipment that I most enjoy using. But the flipside is that I don’t have a full-time accountant, or receptionist, or editor, or salesperson, or IT person – that’s all me. Read more>>

Lindsay Sigg

This thought actually crosses my mind multiple times a week. I tend to get discouraged when I have a slow day or even a slow week. I question if it would be easier to work a normal 9 to 5, receive a paycheck and not have to worry about an entire business. But what I realized is even receiving a consistent paycheck from a job doesn’t mean you won’t have other things to worry about in your life. So I’m either going to have my good and bad days as a 9-to-5 worker or I’ll have my good and bad days as a business owner. Read more>>

Atiya Wright Harris

I am so much happier as a business owner hair has always been my passion. I do not look back to when I had a “regular job” what so ever. I was working at fivebelow 30 hours a week for 2 years. I started seasonally also while being a hairstylist on the side and a full time mother, but right before covid had its name, I was unfortunately fired in 2020. After me being fired hair became my only source of income until the city got shut down. I would panic because hair stylist weren’t allowed to practice and funds were low but that gave me the push i needed to go forward into my career field and it was up from there. Read more>>

Dorien Murphy

Being an entrepreneur is incredibly risky. Of course, you can hedge against the risk by building infrastructure, hiring the right people, training, and training some more, and, ironically enough, taking more risks. Read more>>

Ken Adams

I retired in 2020 following a 30 year career as a medical device engineer so I understand what it is like to have a regular job. Being a business owner is relatively new to me but I can tell you I am a lot happier working for myself than for someone else. When I was in the corporate world, I kept seeing teams getting larger and larger but yet I didn’t notice an improvement in output. Read more>>

John Acree

Truth be told, Ginger Beds is my second business, so I have known for sometime that I am much happier as a business owner as opposed to working for someone else. There is nothing I love more than to teach, help or coach someone something they have never attempted before. There is a huge satisfaction I get when the light bulb finally comes on for them and they feel a sense of accomplishment having mastered something they hadn’t previously. Read more>>

Julie Jacobs

I am happy as a business owner. Infact, from the start I just knew I was never going back to a regular job. Like with a boss. About 6 months after I created Julie Jacobs Coaching LLC I really started to panic. I was making consistent money. Just not a ton of it. all of the self-doubt creeped in. Well, there was no creeping. I was full blown freaked out. There is so much info about how to run a coaching business. I have a natural aversion to sales, and I felt I could never really commit to the sales of it all. I come from a place of service, humor and curiosity. Read more>>

Francesca Potrich

I love owning my own business! since you decide your times; Of course, I did think at one point of sending everything to hell; and think about just have a regular job; and not be worried if the import is delayed, if a coffee machine have problems or who takes care my business if I go in vacation?. Read more>>

Tangi Allison

I am very happy with what i do. I’ve been working more than half of my life & this by far has been the best experience. When my boys were younger, i was a single parent & it killed me to work as hard and long for someone else… to never see my children was hard. My kids would tell me they hated not seeing me and it broke my heart. Being able to have a husband now who believes in you and gives you the opportunity to step out on faith is amazing. It is hard work for sure but I would never want to go back to a “regular job”. Read more>>

Jelicia Moss

Absolutely. I really can’t see myself doing anything else but that. It’s truly a whole new world working for yourself. However, being happy doesn’t mean there won’t be bad days. It’s definitely not giving unicorns and rainbows everyday. There have been plenty of times where I’ve felt like it would be easier to just quit and go back into working a “regular job”. I can’t even think of just one specific moment. You will never catch me knocking a 9-5. Read more>>

Mackenzie Landman

The allure of having a “regular job,” by most accounts, revolves around stability. The reverse often being tied to being self-employed or having an “abnormal” job, in that having anything other than the traditional 9-5 is thought to come with risk and uncertainty. Read more>>

Shay Segev

This question brought me back to when I graduated from FAU. Do I want to be a professional and be generously compensated for my expertise? Having set hours, set days, set PTOs, and a pretty set future. Or on the contrary, no limits on work hours, sharing myself and time with my colleagues and employees, non-stop thoughts on my business, 365 days and nights. I chose to be challenged by the realities of business. Read more>>

Randi Kaufman

I’d be lying if I didn’t say the though of returning to a normal 9 to 5 didn’t cross my mind about once a month. Why? Because owning a business is hard.There is a business owner meme that says something like, “Oh you work 40 hours a week? I remember my first part-time job too.” Read more>>