Thursday, February 24, 2005

Attrition, Have I become a part of it ?

I was running a small business of IT hardware sales and services. I used to employ students, fresh out of college, without any hands on experience. They were cheap to employ, eager to learn, hence hard working too. I used to teach them the secrets of my trade... mentor them. But soon, most would be gone… either gone to join other better paying entrepreneurs, or to become entrepreneurs of their own, or join bigger businesses. I had seen attrition in the face.

Now many years later, I work full time as an employee in a startup (bigger and better run than mine). And down the line, i sometimes get similar thoughts... Should I be changing jobs for better pay? Should I return back to being an entrepreneur again? Well, the first choice would be attrition from my employer’s point of view. What would the second be...?