Entrepreneurs have a rosy view of their every day work-life because they love their boss. It‘s a big change from committing 100 hours a week to please management by putting job first and everything else second, third or not at all.
Not all people morphing to entrepreneurs are prized engineers or ex-VIPs of big corporations. They include everyday workers tired of alarm clocks, traffic jams, and psychotic bosses. A bar manager sick of Tuesdays off -- airline mechanics unwilling to take a 25% cut in pay -- ER interns on 24 hour shifts -- doctors taking down their shingles because of the cost of mal-practice insurance -- teachers looking at dismal long-term retirement estimates. They are leaving it all to have it all!
Once dominated by the young, highly-driven, thirty-something techie, entrepreneurship is quickly being joined by those who happen to be in their 50s, 60s and 70s. The graying of small business was one of the nine major trends of 2005. By accident or design, people tend to retire earlier and paradoxically, they continue to work after retirement.
In the U.S. the pursuit of happiness is a god-given right and Americans have a document to prove it. But I wonder why the Founding Fathers deliberately phrased it, the pursuit of happiness, as if to say --- happiness in itself cannot be granted because it was, and still remains, tied to materialism. In this pursuit of happiness, it is each person's own definition: money, health, religion, etc.
How much would it take to make you a happy Interneter? Has your 'big break' eluded you up to now? What kind of Internet success would give you a sense of control over your life -- because when you think about it, control over your life is a huge slice of happiness.