Life is full of all types of tests for each individual. When I had the second son and I watched he going through different tests in hospital during the first 3 days of his life, from hearing to vaccine inoculation, naked in the hospital with A/C usually pretty low for sanitation purpose, crying hard with trembling and body skin color turning from white to red due to coldness. The nurse taking the test seemed to be indifferent to his reaction and I understood that since she had gone through such lung-tearing cryings all the time she'd got used to it already, numb, in fact. While, as father, my heart was writhing with him and my mind popped up the thought that if I was not able to make him competitive, or at least pass so many tests in his life, I really shouldn't bring him to the world. He will only suffer from those tests.
Tests are one indispensable part of life. From school year to job interviews. Tests from schooling period are pretty straightforward. You don't earn enough points, you don't pass. Tests would be arranged regularly and well notified to each student unless you don't listen well. However tests for life in the real job world are more ambiguous. After you pass probation period, you will be fine. Work will be routine every day and you will be forgetting about test for a long time.
Tests for entrepreneurs are even murkier than such. No one is arranging anything for you, especially in the initial trail blazing period. I felt that I had passed the first test as entrepreneur here in the United States after I started getting stable orders and cash flow from my first website that is selling paintings from photos by helping customers customize a project of photo to painting. But the income is not enough from one website, hence I outsourced the second website of oil painting reproductions to an Indian IT company as I was plagued by my wife's health problem during that moment. I procrastinated in working hardly on the website by myself by assuming the contractor would be able to make everything ready to turn key, however a website is not able to make money by outsourcing to a third party without my own hard time spent on it tweaking, adding, and until making it attractive enough to customers. This second website's always a big step for me to climb up. That is the downside of outsourcing. I couldn't immediately felt in love or commitment with it. It is different from the 1st website that I built every corner by myself. It is like my oldest son. The immediate effect of failing this test is that I have to find a job soon when my second test is still pending to pass. No one gives me this test but it is the TEST that have to overcome if I want to keep the status of small business entrepreneur.
I start to work hard on the second website recently and my neck starts to take the toll for such hardship that reminds me my abysmally hard time in building the first website. The spur to me then was I need to work hard, otherwise I would have to start the night to five plus the long journey due to bad traffic on the way to and back from work. I remember my first job in the U.S. when my English was not good. My time in office was all about staring at computer screen and after a long day without nap, my eyes would be exhausted so that when I drove I felt very uncomfortable in eyes when all light beams from cars, neon were shining around. Pain is the best stimulus.
Pass it!
Tests are one indispensable part of life. From school year to job interviews. Tests from schooling period are pretty straightforward. You don't earn enough points, you don't pass. Tests would be arranged regularly and well notified to each student unless you don't listen well. However tests for life in the real job world are more ambiguous. After you pass probation period, you will be fine. Work will be routine every day and you will be forgetting about test for a long time.
Tests for entrepreneurs are even murkier than such. No one is arranging anything for you, especially in the initial trail blazing period. I felt that I had passed the first test as entrepreneur here in the United States after I started getting stable orders and cash flow from my first website that is selling paintings from photos by helping customers customize a project of photo to painting. But the income is not enough from one website, hence I outsourced the second website of oil painting reproductions to an Indian IT company as I was plagued by my wife's health problem during that moment. I procrastinated in working hardly on the website by myself by assuming the contractor would be able to make everything ready to turn key, however a website is not able to make money by outsourcing to a third party without my own hard time spent on it tweaking, adding, and until making it attractive enough to customers. This second website's always a big step for me to climb up. That is the downside of outsourcing. I couldn't immediately felt in love or commitment with it. It is different from the 1st website that I built every corner by myself. It is like my oldest son. The immediate effect of failing this test is that I have to find a job soon when my second test is still pending to pass. No one gives me this test but it is the TEST that have to overcome if I want to keep the status of small business entrepreneur.
I start to work hard on the second website recently and my neck starts to take the toll for such hardship that reminds me my abysmally hard time in building the first website. The spur to me then was I need to work hard, otherwise I would have to start the night to five plus the long journey due to bad traffic on the way to and back from work. I remember my first job in the U.S. when my English was not good. My time in office was all about staring at computer screen and after a long day without nap, my eyes would be exhausted so that when I drove I felt very uncomfortable in eyes when all light beams from cars, neon were shining around. Pain is the best stimulus.
Pass it!
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