Some referred to it as unintended entrepreneur, accidental entrepreneur or forced entrepreneur. The so-called expert are defining unintended entrepreneurs as individuals that are just plain lucky or newly unemployed that have formed their own small businesses as a result of the shrinking job pool.
I do not agree with the assumption that luck has any part to play in the equation. I strongly believe that that entrepreneurial spirit have always existed in the genes of the American people.
For the month of February according to the Labor Department, employees cut 36,000 net jobs and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.7 percent. There appeared to be a correlation between the rise of newly hatched entrepreneurs and an increased in the unemployment rate. It is true that the Americans have the build-in tendency to put their lives into overdrive when it is necessary – more and more are becoming business owners.
In one of his best-selling book, You Can If You Think You Can, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale said it best when he talked about the Americans, their entrepreneurship talents and their ability to succeed despite a recession:
“One wonders what has come over this great, free country. We are the descendants of a once great breed of men who had problems and had them aplenty. But did they whine and whimper and crawl through life on their hands and knees piteously demanding of some so-called benevolent government that they be taken care of? Not on your life! They stood solidly on their feet and they took care of themselves. And they built the greatest economy in the history of the world — one that has made available more goods and services to more people than any other in the long life of mankind on earth.
Could it be that the breed has run out? Have we come to a time when we are so superficial in our thinking as actually to believe that we are being mistreated by some cruel fate in having to deal with problems?
Our forefathers were philosophers. They knew that problems are inherent in the structure of the universe. That is the way it is made. They realized that the purpose of the Creator is to make men, strong men, tall men who have what it takes to stand up to the vicissitudes of human existence, to the harsh facts of life on earth, and not to back away and instead to deal with all of it creatively and forthrightly.
Our forefathers knew, because they were philosophical thinkers, that the only way to make strong people is through struggle. One grows tough mentally and spiritually by putting up a strong resistance to hardship, to obstacles, to suffering. This is the disciplinary value of a problem in the development of a person. It enhances his insights, his strengths and his general capability to live constructively.”
Thank God for the recession – out of this recession many unemployed are taking the entrepreneurial route. The most recent Index of Entrepreneurial Activity by the Kauffman Foundation showed an uptick of new businesses in 2010.
To help make ends meet, a group of software engineers in the Chicago area are starting to purchase domains and utilizing their search engine optimization expertises and creating websites that are frontended with MySQL database and backended with WordPress. Some of their website are HairNations.com, ApartmentQuester.com, AutoShop.name, 1-800-SoulFood.com, WeBuyJunk.net,
and ConstructionReferralGuide.com.
Share your story! What are you doing to bring out the entrepreneurial spirit that you have in you? If you have already started your business, how would you classified yourself: unintended entrepreneur, accidental entrepreneur, forced entrepreneur or necessity entrepreneur?
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