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Jacob (Organix Farms)
@jwadd
Thoughts of the day.

Today our IT group found out that the whole dept will be outsourced to another company. They are offering about half the positions than there are staff. I could see this writing on the wall as the last 6 months to a year has been nothing but probing and inventory from our parent company.

Ironically, I'm not very distraught about the situation. See, I've been building my business for 6 years now and officially on the books the last three. I continue to build my skill sets in various other aspects to make sure I am always a valuable asset. Call it a prepper mindset, call me a go-getter, call me a polymath. Whatever you want to call it, I'm grateful for the choices I've made to allow this situation to be more of an opportunity than a hindrance.

I'm now left with a choice to apply for a potential position at said Outsourcing company, find a job elsewhere, or take this opportunity to dive head first into full-fledged entrepreneurship. The choice between security and freedom. This is ultimately the hardest Choice people have to make not necessarily when it comes to a career but in all aspects of life. I'm at the point where I'm tired of the corporate game, tired of trying to prove my worth and tired of being one of the only employees who gives a shit.

It feels like this is my opportunity to put everything into myself see if I really have what it takes to be a full-time entrepreneur instead of having three side gigs.

The scary part is I have 5 other people depending on my success so failure isn't an option.

Big choices are coming and I'm excited to have these opportunities.

#dailythoughts #gogetem

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db · 1w
Take the chance! You can always admit defeat and go work for someone else if it doesn’t work out. Just be open and honest with the 5 others. You got this.
LeviJohnson.net · 1w
It's a wild ride, but it's been worth it for me, entrepreneurially speaking.
Ryan Wilkins · 1w
If you don’t go for it, you will always have that nagging thought that you could have made it work. It wont always be easy, but what you’ll accomplish will have been worth it.
travisnj · 4d
I really resonate with this. What you’re describing isn’t just fear of job loss—it’s the tension between predictable stability and earned freedom. I’ve been on both sides of that divide. I was once part of the outsourcing machine, and I walked away because it was corrosive—to people’s...