Read almost any entrepreneurial based blog post or book and it bashes working for someone else left and right. Although we’re not exactly fond of having jobs ourselves, they provide a unique opportunity that going solo too soon can’t seem to offer; stability and massive early growth.

What’s wrong with stability? It gets a bad rap even though it’s a great thing in the early days of starting and growing your business.

When I really began to grow my business as a wholesale Amazon seller I got fired from my day job. Like pack your bags you’re done fired and it hurt. The good part, looking back, is how it forced me to grow the business in the short-term. I made different decisions without having that security or stability. I had bills to pay and responsibilities.

Although it worked out, if I could go back, I would have changed the situation entirely. I would rather have had the stability of income so that I didn’t need to take anything out of my business. Each time I paid myself I felt like I was robbing my business and stealing its potential growth, which was true. Sure I was able to pay my bills, but that was capital that would be consumed, rather than going into growth to compound many more times within the business.

It severely stunted my companies growth…

We’re often so focused on leaving that we sacrifice our businesses for our own selfish wants. Think of your business as a person. Let’s say that person is a farmer (it’s random, but keep reading). Each time your farmer friend produces a crop you take a portion. Doesn’t seem so bad and seems quite normal, but what if each new unit(?) of crop could yield 3-5 more the next time it’s planted (I’m clearly not a farmer….)?

Not too soon….

Keeping in mind the point of farming, in this context, is to have a farm (read: business) so large that even when you do take from it, it still grows larger.

It’s like families who have $500M in a trust fund and routinely spend $1M each year. Even though their spending is incredibly high, the earnings of the $500M grow at a faster rate than the $1M they spend each year. So even with that high spending, they continue to increase their wealth.

So when you steal from the crop (read: business/profits) too early, you severely stunt the business’ growth. At some point it makes sense as I described above, but too early and you’re left with a farm that never quite grows.

That’s what I was left with after being forced to take some of my profits too early. But the whole reason I started this business was to make more money Dillon! I hear you and I understand, but you’re thinking too small. When you take profits from your business, whatever is left over is actually your profits, not the total.

So if you had $2,000 in January in profits but paid yourself $1,500, you only have $500 in profits left over. Not bad, but if you reinvested the $2,000 in total and grew that business for another six months to a year before taking anything out, you could be in a much better position.

A position you wanted to be in in the first place.

Here are two options:

Situation 1 – $2,000 gross profits – $1,500 owners withdraw = $500 profit.

Situation 2 (let the business grow for a while) – $5,000 gross profits – $3,000 owners withdraw = $2,000 profit.

The only difference between the above situations is that you wanted and continued to grow the business without taking anything out as long as you could, not stealing from your crop…..

The big takeaway here is that if you have a negative view of your job, make a point to shift your perspective and use the stability to but both yourself and your business in a better financial situation in the near future.

After all, what’re another six months to a year if we’re all going to live to be 100+ years old?