I've been saying a lot over the last two years about I hope to one day pursue my "dream job" of being an entrepreneur. Or sometimes I say things like, "I should move to Silicon Valley", "I should drop out of college", "I'm waiting for my idea", etc. I act like I have to have a successful company/idea/decision in order to have my dream job, but I think I'm wrong about that. I'm wondering if I'm already an entrepreneur and I'm already living my dream job. The start of every great business story is someone spending weekends in their garage, apartment, basement, etc. trying to make an idea work. Even if I'm not getting paid, I'm in complete control of my life and I'm spending it pursuing business. If I change my perspective, there's a really good argument that I'm already an entrepreneur. I'm at least in stage 1 of being an entrepreneur. And even if I never leave stage 1, it doesn't mean I wasn't an entrepreneur. Just because a gambler never wins a bet, doesn't mean they aren't still a gambler. Just because a singer isn't famous, doesn't mean they aren't an artist.
I wonder if great entrepreneurs look back at stage 1, a stage that usually lasts around a year from what I've seen, and wish they could go back for a moment. Most successful entrepreneurs spend the vast majority of their job managing the company that resulted from an idea, but the creation of the idea is only a short term. Maybe that's why rich entrepreneurs keep building new companies or business lanes, they long for that stage 1/2 phase.
I bring all this up because I have a feeling that I'm gong to blink and in 20 years have built a successful company, with the hope that I've attained my dream job, only to realize that the last 20 years of failure, development, risk taking, and creativity were the job. Maybe I've been falling into my own happiness model of finding joy from the future thing, instead of focusing on what's right in front of me and enjoying the ride.
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