The idea that being an employee offers more stability than being self-employed is very entrenched. On paper, this seems logical, because as an employee, you are paid every month, you have your hours and little turbulence. On the other hand, being independent means taking risks, managing clients, invoices, uncertainty. … However, this clear division does not convince everyone.
José Elías, CEO and founder of Audax and regular at social gatherings and podcasts on entrepreneurship and finance, recently addressed this topic. In one of his latest posts on LinkedIn, the businessman made it clear that he did not share this traditional view.
Elías assures in his publication that he does not understand this “security of working for someone else” because, if the ship sinks, the employee is the first to leave. While many believe the company is a safe haven, he believes that is an illusion, because if things go wrong, the captain, the owner, will be the last to go, but the employees won’t have that option.
As he explains, working for someone else means living dependent on the decisions of others. It won’t depend on you Stay or go, and your stability will be subject to the skill of the one who leads. This lack of control over the direction is, for him, what really takes away safety. “You are in the hands of what this person decides,” he summarizes.
The risk of entrepreneurship
On the other hand, the businessman defends that, when you work for yourself, you can react, correct and maneuver. For him, this capacity to respond is real stability, no matter how much riskier it seems from the outside.
Elías concludes that he does not want this “so-called security” of traditional employment. “If the ship sinks, let it be because I didn’t know how to steer it, not because someone else decided I wasn’t needed,” he concludes.
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