No access to free office supplies. When you work for a big company as a cog in the machine, you may be chained to a dark little cubicle. They may time your bathroom breaks. But you will have virtually unrestricted access to a gift that keeps on giving called the storeroom. Show me someone who has four different kinds of staplers at home, and I ll show you someone who passed on the entrepreneur thing, and has a loving spouse who spends the day preparing delectable meals and stapling papers of all sorts and sizes.
Entrepreneurs don t have office supplies.
They work out of their cars. There s the rub, as your English teacher might say, if she is still foolishly obsessed with teaching you Shakespeare when you d much rather be watching a premium cable channel. Because if you start your own company, you probably won t have a car. Or you might have one at first, but you ll have to sell it to give yourself a paycheck, or to obtain money for office supplies. So the question that lingers is an obvious one, said I triumphantly, lingering for a moment to see if the student in the front row was brandishing brass knuckles at me or merely had some type of prosthetic.