a dream

Most of us dream of a dream in which we see ourselves being an entre­pren­eur. Some of us make that dream come alive, some of us try to make that dream a real­ity, and some just keep on dream­ing that dream.

Hav­ing com­pleted a Master’s in Entre­pren­eur­ship Stud­ies, I wasn’t really ready for that jump into entre­pren­eur­ship. I need time – time to dis­cover my bound­ar­ies; time to dis­cover and redis­cover what I wanted to do; time to under­stand what I was really good at and if I was really good at it.

When I fin­ished col­lege, the object­ive sec­tion of my resume had this single line: To become an intrapren­eur in the organ­isa­tion I work in. Intrapren­eur­ship – a nice fancy word I chose for myself – a word that meant the prac­tice of entre­pren­eur­ial skills and approaches by or within a com­pany. I now real­ize that I’ve been work­ing as an intre­pren­eur or a quasi-entrepreneur in whatever I did at my career down the years.

I took a decision to take an off­beat track even before my career took off. I was off to write stuff when my fel­low stu­dents were look­ing at the lure of a good sales job or a career writ­ing code. I was proud of what I did then as I am right now head­ing into a new direction.

I guess it is the time to really chal­lenge myself to make that dream come alive. It is time I moved from being an intrapren­eur to an entrepreneur.