Entrepreneurship

Assallamualaikum,

Just a quick check-in of what I have discovered on my journey so far into a life trip of realizing my potential as an Entrepreneur.

After the urut session which happened on Tuesday, 26th June 2012, I went home with Roy's elder brother, sending him and his wife, Yuliya, home.

Razali (Roy's brother) is a very soft-spoken chap. He speaks very cautiously and very observant of the surroundings he is in. When we were inside my car, he revealed his work as an Engineer dealing with specialize parts in the railway network all around the world.

Razali started off describing all the things that he had to do in his job (i.e. from technical sales representative, setting up everything from hardware to software and even training staff of his client on how to operate the system. From where I am standing, he might as well own the company that he is currently working. Razali really opened my eyes why highly skilled personnel such as him would rather work for a living then running his own firm. The following points are what I have gather from him.

1. He does not have to worry about the nitty-gritty of running a firm. That requires him to pay his staff.
2. He would rather focus on the things that he have technical expertise which requires a very comprehensive and specialize knowledge of.

This sets me back and made me realize that highly qualified personnel would rather we leave them alone with their technical stuff and they are not geared to become an entrepreneur at all.

They may be very or extremely precise about what they are doing to the extend of putting their feet down if anyone transgress their principal but they might not be tactful enough to win contracts to get the business to sustain them. They would rather be paid and get the sense of security rather than living with the thoughts of not getting enough work to sustain the company.

At the end of my encounter with Razali, it gives me a ray of hope that not everyone especially very highly qualified individual and even perhaps graduates may think of setting up their own business. They have too much knowledge to just let it go to rest. Hence they would rather be employed and paid accordingly then worrying for the next contract the company can win over.

Whereas an entrepreneurial spirit will prosper by doing things freestyle and able to synergise the strength of his personnel under him to gain or break new frontiers of doing business and profitting from it.