The struggle between the decision of being your own boss and working under someone is becoming more difficult to make as economic situations become tougher. From evaluation around me, self proclaimed entrepreneurs are quitting entrepreneurship because of difficulty in maintaining a business and reduced sales due to reduced purchasing power from people, an effect of the economic situation. Office workers on the other hand who also have been on one salary grade for a long time now are becoming fed up with how their monthly salary is no longer sufficient to secure a comfortable lifestyle for a month also due to the higher cost of living. What do you think is the way forward?
In my opinion, wisdom is required, as no two cases are exactly identical.
An entrepreneur who is a startup and obviously hasn't any capital to scale up or maintain, and neither does the person have a backbone (support). Then I'll recommend that he/she should hold both option, I.e work for a firm to get funded while having his/her aspirations on front-burner.
However, if he/she has got a support to cater for basic needs, then that's an opportunity to draw all focus to his/her ambition.