If starting a business is because you don't need a boss ....

If starting a business is because you don't need a boss, you want money now, you want to be financially free, you have a new ideas, you don't want to work long hours. 

Well, let me tell you the truth, business is really hard, more harder than getting a job. Want to enjoy a easy life, you don't like stress — forget business, get a job!

Since age 16, when I started blogging business (Doactalk.com), I have been working long hours, more at night. 

As for the boss, I don't want to have a boss, I hear some people saying — I have bosses; investors, government policies, Nigeria internet regulatory board. So when I see mail from these, I first prayed before checking in.

Because most people do see me always at my parent's house, they seeing me playing with children at some evenings, looking good. The truth is not every time, I have money, but I have to still be like money is coming. For more than six months, I am broke, yet will still okay — feeding from my amazing parent.

Because I know it is what I choose, the path is tough and rough, full of ups and downs. You may even give everything, yet the business will fail.

Not all ideas, are worth the thought. Some ideas I took, killed my business, even kick me out of business for some months. I remembered in 2022, when Naira card was out globally; we were using Google Domains for our domain hosting, using Blogger CMS, for blog management.

I went out of business, because I don't have virtual dollar card. It wasn't easy. I have cried for some nights, like one who lost his mother. I have be heart broken and tears out, without words — like one whose full loved girlfriend breaks his heart.

Some ideas are good, not profitable. Business is not for people, who are always busy, it is for those that are productive as nature.

Business is not for the weak, nor for the strong. Business is for those who dares, no matter what, you are still ready to hold up.

Don't be deceived by the wealth of entrepreneurs, forbes record of billionaires. Have Nigeria authority, tamed you for defaulting — I was tamed by Nigeria Radio Broadcast, for publishing fake news. 

Have you be called by lawyers, I was but God saves me and keep giving me victory.

You don't want to work long hours, no that's not business. I work long hours as Aliko Dangote, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Bishop David Oyedepo, Mark Zuckerberg, Femi Otedola, etc.

It is either, I am researching, reading and studying, attending meetings, checking reviews, or solving a pressing problem — at days extending to nights. I don't sleep until I am half done with what I am doing; or I have finished with what I am doing.

So you see, I know how many times — I was getting slimming because of business. So if you can't, forget business — get a job.

You can still be rich working for some one as an employee — still possible.

© Didi-Omah Augustine Chinazaekpere