Entrepreneurship & Role of Family

Recently, I was reading an interesting blog post that listed several reasons for not becoming an entrepreneur! One reason amongst the top five was ‘sacrificing quality time with family and friends’ indeed, many entrepreneurs do say that they had to sacrifice their family life to make it big in the world of business. And quite naturally since setting up a business, taking care of it and then growing it takes away a substantial amount of time from a persons life living very little for friends family and other personal pursuits. The initial period is almost always difficult but some entrepreneurs do learn to bring in a balance after achieving reasonable stability in their businesses.
Although family life and business life are distinctly different from each other there is an element of commonality between the two both need a fair amount of emotional investment quality time means nothing but the period when we are involved at some emotion level. Thus, family life invariably demands emotional participation. At the same time, most entrepreneur will also agree that they are extremely emotional about there work.It is not surprising therefore that a lot of entrepreneurs do not get much support from their families, particularly at the beginning. In fact, at times there is a position various reasons including emotional as well as financial ones.