Employee or Entrepreneur?

The entrepreneur is the perpetually unemployed freelancer who is always targeting his next project. He seldom plans anything and accepts basically every project that comes along for fear it may be his last. Entrepreneurial types are often multi-talented and enable themselves to generate income from various sources, sometimes in completely unrelated fields. Retirement is a myth to this breed, as they tend to disdain boredom or sedentary lifestyles.

Freelancers often have little sympathy for the complaints of the perpetually employed. They appreciate an honest days pay for an honest days work and they don’t have unrealistic expectations. This person is always in the “mode” because you never know where that next contract might come from.

These two entities are very different creatures indeed.  But ask either if they would trade their existence for that of the other, and you will get an equally resounding NO. Typically each has tried crossing over to the other’s way of life and scurried back to his own comfort zone, grateful for the confirmation.