The purpose, if not always the focus, of student life is to learn, earn a degree to be proud of and get the job of your dreams. But maybe working for someone else isn’t for you? You could set up your own business while at Uni or after graduating when bill sharing with your housemates will seem like a distant dream.
If you don’t use Glide to share your bills, then you may have flash backs at the arguments and sulking over who owes what for the bills. Happy days? Probably not. It’s all part of life and while some student houses can organise themselves, others can’t which is why using a student bill splitting service may be of great help to them.
But this experience of negotiating and learning to compromise when sharing with others may stand you in good stead should you decide that being an entrepreneur is for you. If so, do you see a sleek, monochrome conference sized room overlooking a breath-taking city? Or is the thought of a beach hut from which to run a dive school and marine education centre more likely to make your heart beat fast?
Building a successful business is a mammoth task but worth it to make your own personal dream a living, thriving way of making a difference and earning money. The list of decisions, successes, failures and learning curves ahead is endless.
For a start you will have to consider the marketing, funding, stationery and if you are successful then the staff you’ll need. These are just a few of the issues of what you should begin considering. However, before all that grown-up stuff the beginning of the journey is YOU.
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If you have one of Glide’s student broadband deals then this is a great time to research the niche that will make you millions. Don’t spend all your time carrying out research; you still need to study and watch those box sets on Netflix! Also, and this is an important point, you should use the time while still at Uni and not yet ready to launch, to think about who you are. That’s to say what talents, temperament and passions are vital to lasting success and happiness in business?
Even the most fantastic, potentially lucrative, money-making idea won’t work for long if it doesn’t suit your personality traits. If the thought of having to sit down and discuss sharing inclusive bills with the other tenants in your house makes you shudder, then a massive multi-national corporation is never going to suit someone with a lack of negotiating skills.
What motivates you daily? Wealth, influence, helping people, saving the environment or simply the wish to make people happy or be useful? These are all examples of why an individual wants to set up their business. Use your motivations to inform the choices made about the direction you want to travel in.
Deciding what to do with your life
Similarly, a much-loved hobby is a fantastic place to start when deciding what to do with your life. A people person who enjoys being outdoors would make a committed challenge co-ordinator leading the public up mountains and through forests.
Money is, of course, the prime reason for running a business. Happiness and fulfilment are pointless if the rent isn’t being paid. A convincing, fully costed business plan is an intrinsic first step in the process of getting a start-up company off the ground. Learning about them and practising writing your business plan will really help to focus the mind to the realities of your ideas.
Get help and guidance from the University careers service, they can be a criminally under-used resource. Contact entrepreneurs you know – and those you don’t know – to politely ask for tips and their advice. Be polite and show them this isn’t a whim and most will be delighted to impart the wisdom they’ve learned through hard graft.
It’s important to understand that your future is yours to enjoy – don’t live your life trying to make others happy with a career you don’t much care for and learn more about the traits that will help you succeed in life.
If you want more information about bill sharing in a student house then speak with the friendly experts at Glide, and if you want advice about what to do after Uni then pay your careers advisor a visit – they will be pleased to see you and have sound advice on how to take the next steps to your future success.