Entrepreneur With an Employee Mindset
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Published: 2021-11-24 13:31:56


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In this episode Matt and Mike discuss front-end development, covering a roadmap of skills that can be used as a sort of guide through the many front-end technologies. The duo go over a list of topics that you can use to learn front-end development starting at vanilla HTML + CSS, and working into more complex topics like frameworks, JavaScript, some backend tech, and much more.

## Show Notes


###  An entrepreneur with an employee mindset
    

* Getting “stuck” in a contract or working relationship where you just do the tasks you’re given by a client and that’s it for the day
    
* It’s easy to fall into this routine of just being your clients’ employee over the years, especially when you have a lot of clients
    
* This is very common among people that have worked as an employee before, or those that have been in the “traditional” school system where you effectively wait to be given a task, you complete that task, then you get a reward for that task such as money, or a grade
    
* Can really bog down the potential of your business and make your clients’ problems your problems
    
* For example, you can easily fall into hard times when they do, and you both fight to get out of it - when you could have just left them and gotten a new contract
    

* Obviously it’s not as easy as just leaving sometimes, especially if you know them, or have worked with them for a long time. Sometimes it’s better to stay if you believe their product will take off some day
    

* There needs to be a balance of you running your business, and you taking on the tasks that they’re assigning you from their business. Remember you’re offering a service, you aren’t an employee
    
* Knowing when to leave or stay with someone is extremely difficult, we mess this up probably every day
    
* Footnote: You spend more time doing what you’re told than making decisions and running your business
    

### Hesitating on “big” decisions
    

* We all hesitate, rightly so, with big decisions. For entrepreneurs, the decision can take a long time and can even turn into some attempted social engineering
    
* Trying to tailor conversations and social situations so that they fit a certain scenario almost never works - this commonly comes up when you have a difficult phone call, or email to send off - we can imagine the full conversation in our head, their responses and ours, but usually the conversation doesn’t follow such a linear path - remember they have their interpretation of the situation too
    
* Hesitating on investing with something that you won’t miss.
    

* We’ve all been in scenarios where we hesitate for hours and even days on whether we should sign up for some service that costs $10-20/mo
    
* In the meantime, that service may give us access to some software that makes your process better and even gives you ideas for new services and/or products to offer yourself
    
* At the end of the day if you forget to cancel that subscription, you won’t miss the $10-20/mo realistically (do cancel subs that you don’t use as they add up, but don’t fret over a forgotten month or two)
    
* We spend a lot of time hesitating over things that won’t sink us anyway
    
* Use that time to make decisions on truly big decisions that may sink you/your business, or affect you long term
 

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