STARTUP WORKING And Love - How They Are The Same

Someone asked me: how it is to work at a startup?

Last year pushed more people towards starting their businesses, and it created more opportunities in the world work. For me, each longer professional communication is a tiny model of a startup, and I love this flow. How else could it be? I know that going this path, again and again, will give me more than one reason to enjoy my client's results and celebrate achievements.

But stop. I don't think it's this fluffy, pink, romantic type of love (this exists only in some dreams). A startup is the closest model to our everyday life journey.

Intimacy – commitment – working on it – break up or forever after.

Usually, it starts with a very intimate and vulnerable idea, born from pain and disagreement with reality. Probably you heard that most successful and fast-growing businesses started from a solution to someone's pain.

Intimate and intense?

While joining a startup, you are entering someone's very intimate space. It's reminding blind date – no one knows what to expect. If it's a match, you will commit part of your life to grow someone's idea.

If it goes well, you will fall in love with this idea and will be about it all your time. You will be excited and persuading all around how great and life-changing it is. Pleasant and motivational stage while all are happy and content.

Public and challenging

After a while, strangers will enter the business. Each successful startup needs investors, and they will come. It changes the workflow dynamics. First recognition from the world usually grows the number of your peers, income, and expectations. Intimate becomes public. Now it is not the first love with all its excitement but grown-up life, reminding a bit of marriage with all new relatives around -someone like it, some not.?

Plato and uncertainty

Nobody fancies this stage. After all this excitement, lifting heavy weights and stretching comes time for cardio. Boring. Nothing happens. Maybe it's time to rest? Rarely you can because you are so used to high speed. It feels like slowing down and kind of the end, but in reality, it's an adjustment to the world. The world needs time to understand if it needs your work.

Noone likes the threat of rejection, but it's time to wait and contemplate. At this stage, you can get the most valuable experience of working in a startup. You can make lists of experiences and challenges overcame, your new strengths, and goals. You probably will think about separation if your core strength is building something new again or consider settling down if your love with the idea becomes lifelong.

New you

Traditional careers expect walking the ladder, and startups are spinning you through the spiral to your next level. The power you have will mostly stay inside you and would not reflect in the number of subordinates. Startups are for growing leaders, and you become better for everyone around you, personally and business-wise. If you dreamed about being king or queen – it is probably not the right path for you.

We all are different. Our stages in life and commitments vary. Exciting is not always supporting us on specific periods, but boring might warn us out too fast. Joining a startup means a commitment to grow inside too. It might be challenging but rewarding not only financially but personally.

Best things happen on time, don't speed up if it feels too challenging, and make a move if you feel prepared.

Always choose The Best Way To BEST OF YOU,

Monika Aman