Life of db

They’re hustlers, jugglers, madmen, egomaniacs, people who desperately attempt to build empires on little money and less time. I would never want to be one, but if you want to, more power to you. But here’s the thing: Those entrepreneurs go through hell to do what they do. You can’t take their title and apply it to yourself just because you want to belong to that club.

This is bad-ass. It’s also quite true, at least in the sense that mostly everyone who says they are an entrepreneur doesn’t put their backs up against the wall. There’s a difference between Joe and Trish. Joe works a 9-5 and then puts his sash on stating his position as an Artist for 3 hours on a Sunday night. Then Joe takes his fifty bucks and runs to the store and buys a bag of chips to make it to the next Sunday. Trish is somebody who lives and breathes their art (in whatever form it takes), and without it she wouldn’t have a place to live.

I think that if you want to label yourself as an entrepreneur, more than 50% of your income should come from whatever art you produce (side note: while you’re at it, update your definition of art).