#1808 - Q&A: Am I better at working for others than myself?
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today’s listener thinks she is better at working for others and is worried about whether she’s cut out for starting a side business. Is this just a matter of self-confidence?
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| 0:35.0 | All right, all right. What's up? Welcome to Sideosel School. My name is Chris Gillabo. |
| 0:39.0 | Thanks for tuning in today and welcome as well to a brand new week. |
| 0:42.8 | A new week on the podcast, a new week in life. And I've got an interesting listener question for you |
| 0:47.2 | today. Now, I bet a lot of people are going to relate to this because learning to work for |
| 0:51.2 | yourself is a skill. It's not innate. It's kind of like remote work, in the sense that if you |
| 0:57.2 | have only had a job that you go to, and then because of a global pandemic or some other reason you |
| 1:02.2 | start working from home, learning to work remotely requires some adjustment. And I think we've seen |
| 1:06.8 | a lot of people over the past couple of years learn to make those adjustments and sometimes |
| 1:11.8 | adapt to it right away, but sometimes struggle a bit. And the same is true with working for |
| 1:16.6 | yourself as opposed to working for a boss and with a team. Just a little bit of a different process. |
| 1:22.0 | So that brings me to today's question. Today's listener thinks she is better at working for others |
| 1:27.5 | and is worried about whether she's cut out for starting a side business. So is this just a matter |
| 1:32.1 | of self-confidence or is there more to it? Let's talk about it. Am I better at working for others |
| 1:36.8 | than myself? That's our question coming up in just a moment. |
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