Is your business a job?

Is your business a job?

If you step away, does the work stop? Does profit stop coming in? If you answer yes to the questions, then you have a job, even if you’re running your own business.

It doesn’t matter if you call yourself an entrepreneur or a CEO.

No self-running systems with minimal maintenance, means it’s a job.

Of course, that doesn’t mean a business that can be run fully autonomously without any human in the loop. All systems need input. It needs fuel to keep going. By self-running, I mean yourself.

If you go on a one month vacation and only work one day for maintenance, then it’s a business.
If you fall ill but work still gets done by your employees, then it’s a business.
If you stop marketing and your AI agent does that, then it’s a business.

But if you personally take your foot off the gas for a minute and everything starts to decay, then you got a job.

You don’t want a job.

You want a system that’s a business.