Software Business in the Middle East

My two weeks vacation has just finished. As usually, I checked my e-mails daily, and even worked from dawn to dusk for couple of days.

During my vacation I asked myself a question about how long I would have fun running my own company. In the past, the longest time on the same job was 4 years, and this is only thanks to the fact that my responsibilities had been changed almost every year. Driving your own business is more interesting as today you might negotiate with the customers and prepare the proposal for them, but tomorrow you might already read the tutorials on Oracle preparing to add its support to your product.

I am far away from thinking that I will do what I do now forever. One day I might wake up and feel I’m fed up with this job. And if I have no fun running my company anymore, the company will die if everything still depends on me. It leads me to another question – if business depends on my desire to work and how much fun I have from it, what’s the difference between this business and freelancing? Today I feel it’s cool, and business moves forward, but tomorrow I get interested in something else, not necessarily related to IT. What will happen to my company then?

So we come to the idea that sooner or later the active management will be delegated to the employed people – CEO, General Manager or however it will be called. Now this thought seems to be scary – how that is possible if I spend all my time now to move forward the company, and then finally step down? But it will happen one day, and it is better to think about it already now.

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