Speaking Of...

Erik Hanberg was our class guess speaker last week. Erik is an entrepreneur/ author. He writes books like mystery novels to how-to books. He's how-to's like The Little Book of Gold, is a step by step to help small non-profit business, or what Andrew likes to call it surplus profit business. It suppose to be a key staff in charge to help fundraise the business (because every business needs to make money even if it stated that it's a non-profit). He gave up his nine to five job to be an entrepreneur and work with his wife because he loved the freedom he gets because him and his wife are in charge. He almost mention that it's hard and that he had to work endless hours for a period of time, but he felt that it all paid off in the end. 

What spoke to me the most of his whole presentation was the three questions to ask yourself when it comes to finding or accepting a job offer. He mentions that there is always opportunities knocking at your door, but you don't have to take it if you really don't want to. You're not going to like what you do if you do it that way. The questions: Is it something you want to do? Will you get paid what you want to get paid? Will it better your career?

Two out of those three should say yes to those questions. It could be that the job is something you want to do but the pay isn't want you want. However, it can better your career because it may not be the pay you want but you can learn from that job and move on to a job that pays better. There can be any combination of those three questions, at least two of these questions need to be a yes. It's great that it's all a yes, then you would love your job. 

Another topic Erik touched base on was that he even had to go to an business advisor. Every quarter he goes to see a business advisor to see where he stands and what to do. The business advisor is more of an accountability. Even professionals ask for help and there's no shame in it.