Employee to Entrepreneur: Part 1

For the longest time, I worked for other people. I believe thoroughly that we are taught that in school, high school, well, elementary starting even, kindergarten, elementary and all the way up through college. Most of the time, we are taught to be part of the workforce. We're taught to be workers, not entrepreneurs. Up until March 1, 2019, I was working for other people. I was punching a clock, essentially. Not literally all the time, but that's really what it was. Working for someone else, even though they say sometimes that you are running your own business you are under someone else's rules, and that's the sales thing. You are working for a company, and it's any company, and you're just punching someone else's clock, making someone else rich.

Essentially, yes, you have the potential to make yourself a lot of money, but you're always under someone else's rules, someone else's roof. In the beginning, the first couple of months of 2019, I could feel something was off, something just wasn't right. I didn't have passion. I didn't have any real passion to get up and go to work in the morning. I had been listening a lot to the likes of Gary Vaynerchuk, and a lot of other people that were saying do what you like. If you can't wake up in the morning and say, I need to get out of bed and go do this, I want to do it now, then you might need to be doing something else.

Towards the last couple of months of my actual employment, my performance reflected that. At the end of February, the last day of February 2019, I'm pulled into an office and I'm told, "Well, we can't do this anymore." I agreed. There was no bad feelings, no animosity, left on good terms, but neither one of us could do it anymore. That's really where it was at. I woke up the next day, two days before my 60th birthday and said, today is the day. Chris Jones Media is going to get a whole new direction. Up until that point, it had been just a website really, it wasn't doing much. I wasn't really doing anything with it.

There is more to this story. Part 2 Soon..