My Entrepreneurship Story

My for most of my life since entering adolescence, I have had the opportunity to work with entrepreneurs. These were people were some of the hardest workers I have ever been around. Some of them started landscaping businesses, others were craftsmen. My senior year of high school, the summer before I came to UF, I had the opportunity to work with an entrepreneur. Who had a fairly sizable business. His entire career he had worked for himself as a real estate developer. When I met him, he was not only doing this, but he also owned and managed several senior living facilities. I was able to work for him at a time when his small company was building a new facility which would effectively double the number of seniors they could care for. It was a small office- just myself, the owner and three other employees in the office were responsible for all the managerial functions of the normal business and the new construction on top of that. Because of this, everyone involved had to wear multiple hats. If any of us had chosen to put our foot down, and not do things outside of our comfort zone, it would have severely delayed the project.


What I learned from this is that if you are an entrepreneur, you have to be willing to do everything to get the job done, because at the end of the day the success of the project rests on you. This means that from top to bottom, the entrepreneur has to be willing to do every task involved. At least in this particular case, being an entrepreneur did not mean sitting on an ivory throne, handing out orders.

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  1. Daniel KaplanFebruary 2, 2020 at 1:03 PM

    Hello Zach,

    I enjoyed reading your post. I think it is really cool the experience you had with the entrepreneur. I am interested in real estate as well. It seems like you learned a lot about real estate and how to start your own business. It was probably a really great experience to have. I liked how you included those specific pictures. It gives a good picture of what you were talking about.

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  2. KindraFebruary 2, 2020 at 5:14 PM

    You have had quite a bit of entrepreneurial experience already. It sounds like you learned a lot about how hard entrepreneurs have to work in order to succeed. Being an entrepreneur is definitely not for someone who is lazy or unwilling to learn new things. I enjoyed reading about your experiences and the lessons you learned from the entrepreneurs you worked with.

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