Start up VS Corporate Jobs

Having a couple of MNC offers and being the lucky few in the weak economy you have a choice to make. A choice which would define how your career shapes out to be in the future. You have a job from a well-established company or from a startup which is just making a name in the industry. The predilection towards a corporate job with a placid life style seems the correct choice or MAY BE NOT?

Here are a few reasons why you should quit your job and join a startup instead:

Grow faster:

Working with a small team will help you to make your presence felt faster and growing up the ladder would become easy. However in the start the work might seem limited (lesser pay) but as the company grows more work and better pay would be offered.

More Experience:

Bigger companies seem to keep rotating its employees to get them accustomed to the entire whereabouts of the company and help them settle in their field of expertise  or maybe in the place where the company lacks man power whereas Startups don’t have the funds to mother you through the training which is no bad as working in startups is often considered to be as dog years as 1 year of working in a startup gets you the same amount of experience, variety of work and skill set as working for 7 years in big companies.

Be the part of the next big thing:

You might never know, but you might be working with the next Zuckerberg. Almost all founders are envisioning an exit like WhatsApp and Myntra making all those emails and deadlines worthwhile. However working with a founder around you can be benign in shaping your career and help you while setting up your own enterprise.

Work Environment:

Opening beer on special occasion (Wink) might seem a big no at huge corporate offices but for startups every small achievement is a special occasion. Wear what you like is what most of the startup follow, so even an old t shirt works well.  

More Responsibility and Exposure:

A startup usually surfers a shortage of fund despite of having happy investors or a founder with rich aunt. So responsibility on every person working is more and mostly no two person specialize in the same work. The exposure to different aspect of business and development of skill sets will out run the pay offered by a bigger companies.

Always Learning

People who strive to make something on their own have a different set of mind which enables them to approach a problem in a different way. However working with them would enable you to approach a problem in a lot of different ways making you land closest to the solution. The spirit of entrepreneur is infectious, being with one would eventually let you plan your own.

But pursuing a startup depends also on the tolerance of risk you have. But taking a risk once in a while never killed nobody.