Is being fired all that bad?
by Sarah
According to research, almost 20% of small business owners founded their companies after being fired from their last job. 44% of business founders did so because they were sick of their existing job and felt they could do it better themselves.
Call me cynical but I expect the 20% is as high as it is due to the difficulty in getting another job when you have been fired from the last job and not because disgruntled workers are amongst some of the top British entreprenaurs as the authors of the survey would like us to believe.
Unless you have been on the Apprentice being fired is not normally a good career move.
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I set up, not because I had been fired but saw a market opportunity for a niche employment firm. It was also a philosophical move to recover some freedom and happiness after almost having all my personality smothered out of me at a previous employer.
phil said at September 7th, 2007 at 4:49 pm