Don't discredit your business simply because it's not your full-time job
- Hello Coastal Social
- Mar 26, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 21, 2023
Do you have a full-time job, and run a business on the side?
If you do, maybe you're perfectly content with it remaining a side business—or maybe your goal is to fully support yourself with it one day. Whatever the case may be, I have an important message for you:
Your business is still a business, even if it’s not your full-time job.
For example, if you’re an artist and your goal is to fully support yourself one day through your art, but you need another job right now—that doesn’t minimize your success as an artist. You’re still an artist who is creating something meaningful to you and to others—and if you keep going you will get there.
Or maybe you run a bakery out of your home as something you enjoy to do on the side. Simply because it’s one aspect of your life that you enjoy to do, but not your entire identity, doesn’t make your confections less than, or diminish your business.
As a society—and especially on social media—we can be so quick to judge both the success of others, and of ourselves. So just because you want to, but may not be able to fully support yourself through your business right now, does not make it any less of a business. Or if you run a business on the side that you enjoy, but have another job as well, that doesn’t make your business any less of a business either.
So the next time you find yourself comparing to others or feeling discouraged—take a moment to reflect and remind yourself of this.