HAVE MADE THEIR BUSINESS TO NOT BE.....
yep. I own two small businesses that I do nothing 99% of the time. But that isnt a day one situation for 99.99% of businesses. One of those is a beauty salon I bought in full operating condition with a staff in place and an owner who wanted to retire. The other is a management company that administrates 12 condos around 2 universities.
Now if you came in here saying...Ive got tons of family money and want to get something of my own started...I could give you a pile of potential buy in opportunities.
But you came in broke....with no special skills...no big ideas...and the only dream you were sharing is the all too common dream of "working for yourself not the man"
Now if you want to learn to code, or do computer modelling, or something like that....sure you can build that skillset in your spare time at little to no cost....and someday you may get good enough that you can make enough that you can quit that day job.
The truth is...most of us spend several years struggling to keep our first...second...or third business from going under. We make huge personal sacrifices to keep it going. I lost a wife over my current consulting firm...the first year was more up and down than any sane person could withstand. See until your business is making enough money you dont get to pay yourself...and if it needs anything at all...you end up having to come out of pocket. And your dream of delegating everything and drinking mai thais by the pool....well guess what...until youre seriously banking profit and have significant money in your company accounts.....you have to delegate everything to yourself.
You know what my worst moment in business has been? October 1997, my daughters were a month old....I had to go back to stripping for october and november because if I didnt I would have had to have let my 2 employees go....without which I couldnt keep my small manufacturing firm functioning. YEAH...you heard that right...I had to go shake my ass to pay my employees.
Its glamorous and great and fancy and wonderful....once you have put in all the hard work to get to that point.....if you are lucky and things are stable enough that you dont have to get started on the next thing to ensure you dont wind up flat in a year or two when whatever you are doing is being done to death by everyone and their uncle.