Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "America's Dangerous Obsession with Entrepreneurship" video.

As a YouTube video I watched pointed out, when you make a change like that, you had better prefer the problems of the change to the problems you have, or it's probably not going to work. I'm going to be starting a business soon due to burnout, but I have good reason to think it's the right move for me. For one thing, I'm going to have a 2-year accounting degree to help me guide the planning process, which for a small startup with just one person and probably no inventory is plenty of education on that. And, the burnout is from all the interactions with people at work and the general chaos, I'm autistic, and a lot of us wind up starting businesses because we're burned out from the pointless BS that shouldn't even be a part of the job. But, that being said, it is often times self-defeating as small business owners tend to work longer hours than they would have if they worked for somebody else, and the business has to grow before you can afford to offload much onto employees or independent contractors.
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@abyesilyurt Yep, I probably wouldn't be looking to get a reduction in my hours at work to start a business if there wasn't so much BS. I had my job down to the point where I could get the ridiculous amount of stuff that they wanted done done, and with decent quality. But, now I've got a ton of time to fill because I don't have the materials to make my stuff, and I'm trying to stay out of the crossfire of the office politics. I get most of the stuff that was part of my job done an hour or two earlier, but I get little done after that just because of the BS that's been added over the last few months.
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@Luis-Torres It's not necessarily a healthy choice, but it does help a bit with moral knowing that the people who own the company are putting in the hours and are available if there's a problem. But, a better way would be encouraging employees to find efficiency gains that can allow everybody to go home a bit earlier.
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Anybody wanting to start a business really needs either accounting knowledge or to partner with somebody who has it. One of the reasons why businesses fail is spending money on the wrong things and having no way of knowing where to spend the money to improve things. That's where managerial accounting comes into it. I work at a company that either uses the wrong practice for estimating how much work can be done by employees, or has overly optimistic figures, the result is burnout, frustrated customers and increased training expenses. It's one of the main reasons why I've spent the last couple years getting an accounting certificate so that I have those tools to know how to manage a business. (Honestly, training in accounting and experience in whatever market you're going after is a lot more likely to succeed that hiring an MBA with no knowledge related to the area of business you're in)
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@joepiekl It varies a lot, but a lot of the complaints about big corporations come from the fact that they've got the scale of economy to pay better, they're just choosing not to. Whereas small businesses that do that have fewer options for better treatment. I do think that likely will get a bit better over time as there's more companies that provide things like accounting to many different small businesses which allow for the burden of payroll and taxes to be shared and driven to something closer to what the larger companies pay.
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