Visit from Erik Hanberg

Last week an Entrepreneur by the name of Erik Hanberg gave a guest speech in my Entrepreneurship class. His presentation touched on everything my last post about "what is an entrepreneur" talked about. This guy is a true entrepreneur. He was unhappy with his salary job so he left it in pursuit of running his own business. His wife quit her salary job at the same time to start her own design business. Erik then became a managing director of the Grand Cinema, which is a non profit theater. During his work their he came up with the dream of opening up his own for profit theater called the Horatio. Sadly, this dream ended up crashing down on him. But like a true entrepreneur, he did not let this stop him. He decided to, for the time being, help his wife with her business and in his free time started writing. He said he was happy with where he is right now as he is away from the stress of always being monitored and also being able to "sleep in on Tuesdays." They have been on many vacations in the past few years and seem to be enjoying their freedom to stop work when they want and then pick it back up later.  Writing seems to be a passion of Erik's as he has written 3 novels so far. At first sales of his first book were not taking off, but as he published the one more book after another he noticed that when one was bought the buyer often found their way to his other books. This caused his book sales to increase making it a decent amount of his total income. By not giving up he is proving to be a successful writer and at the rate his sales are going the more books he publishes the more money he will pull in. Listening to his story made me realize being an Entrepreneur is not for me, at least for right now. But I did start thinking about finishing the stories I started a year ago. Probably working on them in my free time away from my salary job. The idea of a secure income sounds more to my taste as I don't have any extreme dreams I want to chase at the moment.