Why should you start your career in a startup
Work And Study / / December 25, 2019
If you can not decide whether you should as a first job choose a large or small companyThen perhaps your option - is to work in a startup. Despite the apparent risks, such a choice is a number of positive and valuable lessons that can be learned, starting career at startup.
Let's start with the fact that in a startup you have to forget 90% of those rules, postulates and theories that you "hammered" into a college or university. Will have to learn all over again, and first of all - how to properly handle money, time and people.
1. We must work as if it is not the money of the investor, and your own
Most startups initially or shortly after launch based on the borrowed funds, Moreover, in the minds of the people (in Features - students and young entrepreneurs) formed persistent stereotype about "how things work" when it comes to startups. Often such projects team is very small, in each direction of running only 1 specialist (or combine several positions), most of the money borrowed, and the structure of the project is nowhere spelled out, and a clear distribution of responsibilities almost not.
As a result, start-ups are the place ideal for both in order to "work hard in the black", and to do nothing at all (this happens more often). An important lesson of advice: do not relax and do not think that working in a startup - this is a paradise on the beach with the possibility of "kicking noodle." As soon as a serious project will or investor will be "made" a serious set of tasks, the team will begin to hire new people, and automatically increase attentiveness to what makes each individual participant startup. And if you find that you are not doing absolutely nothing useful and unique for the team, you may be asked to "output." This is a startup differs from a small company, where you will endure, "since I have taken," and from a large corporation where you are at all for many years can be lost somewhere in the bottom of the corporate "pyramid" and do not understand what for the money "large boss. "
Startup teaches you to work as if you were their own money invested in it. If you do not, motivated by self-interest, idealism or banal laziness - you get fired.
2. Startup learns to be grateful and to show respect for other team members
This is a large corporation, you can not just sit back quietly ( "salary-it is still coming!"), But also in the office "smoking room" hurl blame bosses, "obzhevyvat" colleagues and disadvantages breed other "office dregs." In a startup, where people are very few and all together connected and "on sight" if not 24 hours a day, 8-10 hours precisely such "tricks" are not pass. So be grateful and learn to respect and to the opinions of others, and to other people's work. This is - one of the most valuable lessons you can teach teamwork startup.
3. Startup will teach you to be attentive to their own and the "other" duties
At first, almost every startup is so small that even the designers have to understand the intricacies of Communication with the media, developers will learn "the basics" business as a copywriter gets used to make changes to the code site. But over time, as the project of growth and increasing complexity of the tasks you will have to "read" its terms of reference and recall the position for which you originally drawn / hired in the startup. You can not understand, always and everywhere. Oddly enough, but you originally hired to do very specific work and get paid for it is quite a specific salary. If you intend to combine just 3-4 positions - either ask for an increase, or fired. And remember: "burn-out" from too much responsibility to anybody yet did not go to the benefit, even in the steep startup.
4. You will learn not to confuse friendship and standing together in the office desks
The fact that all sit each other "on the head," creating a startup false impression that you - "One big family." Sometimes there is a feeling that you are at a party at the club, but not in the office at work place. But do not confuse friendship and close relations with the fact that the tables have in the office are facing each other, and you are with these people spend 12-15 hours in the same office. You - just colleagues who work more closely and intensively in a confined space until a startup does not start and will not work on the planned indicators.
If you notice that at some point become a "member of the family," and now would not be averse to "give back course, "there is nothing wrong with that for a while and give yourself even at lunch to walk alone, and not" a friendly, crowd. "
Startup teaches to plan, execute and implement their own and others' tasks, common goals and to differentiate between private and working space. If you feel that you are not ready for standard corporate routine, the startup can become that precarious environment in which you can plunge into a first job.
Ready for adventure, change and new work? Then go ahead, in search of a suitable start-up!
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