Comments on: College Intern’s Lament http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/08/college-interns.html Tim Berry on business planning, starting and growing your business, and having a life in the meantime Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:54:15 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eric http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/08/college-interns.html/comment-page-1#comment-133 Eric Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:01:29 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2007/08/college-interns.html#comment-133 <p>I think it'll be interesting when these younger interns realize that a lot of entrepreneurship _is_ boring work. Getting a business off the ground means time spent dealing with getting office space, filing, keeping track of mail, worrying about making payroll, and all sorts of other boring logistics. I've worked at several startups and have no desire to do my own, because while I'd love the freedom of setting my own schedule, I'm not willing to deal with all the other annoying parts of starting my own business. </p> <p>I'm also curious to figure out who they think should be doing the "boring" work at a company? The CEO? It has to get done and somebody has to do it - one way to impress your boss is to knock that stuff out, or figure out a way to automate it, so that nobody has to do it. Otherwise, your boss has to find somebody else to do it, so you're just making more work. </p> I think it'll be interesting when these younger interns realize that a lot of entrepreneurship _is_ boring work. Getting a business off the ground means time spent dealing with getting office space, filing, keeping track of mail, worrying about making payroll, and all sorts of other boring logistics. I've worked at several startups and have no desire to do my own, because while I'd love the freedom of setting my own schedule, I'm not willing to deal with all the other annoying parts of starting my own business.

I'm also curious to figure out who they think should be doing the "boring" work at a company? The CEO? It has to get done and somebody has to do it – one way to impress your boss is to knock that stuff out, or figure out a way to automate it, so that nobody has to do it. Otherwise, your boss has to find somebody else to do it, so you're just making more work.

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