Entrepreneurship often looks glamorous from the outside — having your own business, working on your own terms, no fixed hours, and the promise of financial freedom.
But the truth? It’s nothing like that.
Let’s be honest: being an entrepreneur is dangerously close to being unemployed. Why?
Because if you don’t make a sale today, you don’t make money — and that makes you, technically, jobless.
You can spend the whole day staring at your laptop, attending endless meetings, crafting “strategy decks,” and talking about “growth,” but if there’s no revenue — the result is still zero.
The only real difference appears the moment money comes in.
If someone transfers Rp1 million today, suddenly your status changes — you’re no longer unemployed, you’re a founder.
Ironically, that’s how the world works: people measure your worth by your revenue.
No one cares how many sleepless nights you’ve had, how many decks you’ve rewritten, or how much pressure you’ve endured.
Outside, people only see results.
When they ask, “Is your business doing well?”, they’re not talking about vision or effort — they’re talking about sales numbers.
That’s the thin line that separates the two:
Unemployed: No income.
Entrepreneur: Any amount of revenue.
And the crazy part? That status can change every single day.
Today you might be seen as a “big boss,” but tomorrow — if the numbers don’t move — you’re back to being “unemployed.”
But here’s the thing most people miss: the difference isn’t money, it’s mentality.
Real entrepreneurs keep working even when there’s no income.
They keep strategizing even when results don’t show.
They turn anxiety into endurance.
Because at the end of the day, being an entrepreneur isn’t about what others call you.
It’s not about today’s revenue chart.
It’s about the courage to keep moving — even when that thin line between success and nothingness threatens to break beneath your feet.
Entrepreneurship is standing right at that fragile border between “jobless” and “business owner.”
And the only thing that separates the two?
The courage to keep trying until the sales finally come in.