No from your family members who won't accept work as an excuse for missing the family Fourth of July picnic. Entrepreneurs thrive on the thrill of a difficulty surmounted, and victory outweighs any stressful moments. Employees without entrepreneurial instincts may panic in a crisis, hate the stress and wait for the boss to make a decision. You had guidelines. But there aren't as many guidelines when you're doing things for yourself.
Entrepreneurs recognize opportunity or create it themselves.
John Gill, owner of Howard Fabrication Inc. in Industry, builds pressure vessels and vacuum chambers big enough to test satellites. When large-item manufacturers closed shop after defense and chemical company contracts dried up in the 1990s, Gill started his business, foreseeing that aerospace firms would shift to making commercial satellites. The large fabricators were gone and there was room for someone who builds large items like I do.