Entrepreneur Gene?
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As I was reflecting on my past and present days of entrepreneuralism something occurred to me. There was a never a time I could remember wanting to work for someone else. I always had ideas in my head of creating my own business like being a writer who traveled the world. As I got older I would attend craft shows with my mother and father and learned more about the power of entrepreneurism.
My mother owned her own business as a bookkeeper and a floral business - we took a run on a floral shop but location sunk that one. oops. At the craft shows my father sold jewelry and mother sold flower arrangements and I helped with setting up and sales.
I understood at a young age that being my own boss was a huge commitment and I would be working a great deal of hours but it didn’t deter me at all. The funny thing is my mother despite being entrepreneurial herself, encouraged me to fit inside the box and work for someone else in a so-called secure job. I tried it several times and always failed miserably.
Don’t get me wrong, I was great at the jobs I worked at, always gave over 100%. But I would soon be bored, restless, unchallenged, stifled and frustrated that I was working harder than my boss. I always had ideas of what I could do to make money and tried my hand at so many things including more network marketing companies I would care to count. My mind is always racing with new ideas for different ways for moms to earn income from home, so much that there is not enough time in the day. The thing is, I feel like I am locked in a box and can barely breath unless I am working on my own, my own hours, my own ideas and I get to call the shots. It feels more natural to me than working for someone else.
With all of this, it has occured to me that maybe there is some strange entrepreneur gene that some of us have and some don’t. Do you think? Or maybe it’s innate because we are products of our environment. It’s a good question I think anyways. It also makes me wonder, are my children also destined to be entrepreneurs?
When I Googled it, I found others who were thinking the same thing: Your Biz and Musings of a VC in NYC
What’s your opinion?
Cheers! Kelly 
If nothing else, I think that there are definitely characteristics that some of us have that lead us to become entrepreneurs. And I think those characteristics may be hereditary. You have to be driven from within. My mother was always starting up new little companies here and there! I never thought that I wanted that for myself until I spent a lot of time in corporate America and got tired of everyone working inside their little “boxes”–never wanting to venture outside of them.
Now I never want to work for anyone else ever again!!