Getting an entrepreneurial mindset…
Posted by glenn on June 1, 2006 in Starting Out |
When one, such as myself, is starting a business on the side while keeping a day job it can be hard to define your professional identity. What do I do? Am I my day profession? Or, am I my fledgling, slow-moving, yet-to-make-money side-business?
Which brings me to: How do you introduce yourself?, from the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog:
“If you are in the go-between stage from employee to entrepreneur, you may find yourself frazzled when asked the question “So, what do you do for a living?” at parties, networking events and neighborhood gatherings.”
Hmm… perhaps I need to think of a good “elevator pitch” for myself?
My phrase is something like “well, *officially* I’m a student but actually I’m a start-up entrepreneur”. Might work with “employee” as well…
Yeah, my current thought is similar, something like, ‘I’m a start-up entrepreneur although at the moment I’m “consulting” full-time with (insert dayjob here)’!
One of my friends used to say “Well, if I told you that, I’d have to kill you” then he got the sort of job that well.. yeah, you get what I mean.