re: Folks who left their employment to pursue their own company/self employment .....

Find a business where you can have minimal employees and make a great living. My brother and I own a business and have 45 employees and about $8mm in revenue. I work way too much because people want to do the bare minimum and then get salary increases because they did the bare minimum. If we could do this company without employees, we would, but unfortunately the employees are needed.

Just realized I didn’t answer the question. I always wanted to do my own thing. I have a hard time taking orders from other people. That being said, I didn’t start my company until I was 38.

We’re 7+ yrs into it now and have 3 operating companies and 2 RE entities that own commercial buildings. We’re about to start a 4th operating company and hope to spin off a division of one into a separate company next year sometime. The goal now is to develop a platform group with C-suite folks to operate a portfolio of companies. Others are right about all the work it takes but you don’t really think about it while you’re building it because it’s so exciting! I miss the first couple of years when it was only my partner and I with 2-3 employees.