Business after hours? Is it really worth going down this path? The motivational texts surrounding us all around convince us that it is not. “The American dream can be yours too.” “Quit your job and start developing your business.” “Become the Polish Steve Jobs.” But is it really?
In the face of the ubiquitous propaganda of success, one’s own business, developed after hours, seems unspectacular here. Working full-time and developing one’s idea after hours doesn’t sound like the “American dream”, does it?
And yet, I would like to show you the advantages of this approach – because in my opinion there are quite a few of them.
The benefits of developing your own business after hours
I will refer to my own preston crowell experience here. Today I am “on my own”, but for a year I developed my business after hours, while working full-time as a UX in a Warsaw corporation.
Financial security
This is probably the most obvious advantage of developing your business after hours. Think about it – 500 PLN that you will earn additionally while working full-time evokes completely different emotions than 500 PLN that you will earn for an entire month working only on your own.
Choice
Point one leads us to point two. You profitable digital businesses in quarantine act completely differently when you know you have something to pay your rent for than when the matter is in question.
While working full-time, you can develop your business on your own terms, because you have greater freedom of choice – what you want to agree to and what you don’t. The specter of an empty pot doesn’t force you to make desperate decisions just to stay afloat.
Focus
With a limited amount of time, you review business need to focus on what’s really important, what will actually carry you forward. This skill will be very useful when you go all in on your own (there’s always more to do than time to do it).
Time
You may have less time, but at the same time you have more time for development, for reaching a level where your company stands more or less on two legs. And believe me, at the planning level it is very difficult to predict how much time your company will need to reach such a level.
At the same time, when you have a full-time job at the same time, dwindling savings do not paralyze you, and random events do not knock you off your feet so much.
Such an example. During that first year of my business (combined with a parallel full-time job), we were doing a general renovation of the apartment. We had no experience in this area, and the costs associated with the renovation far exceeded our initial assumptions (along the way, unexpected problems appeared, such as the need to tear up the floor and lay a completely new one).
