How bad, I didn't start up!

OK, so I was selected at the B-school of my dreams and all that, a few years ago. Before the joining date, with terrific enthusiasm, we (all the excited future fellow batch mates and I) went to campus to hear some golden words from our seniors--people who had all been there and done it--and to, you know, network (yeah, verb). Some are great entrepreneurs and some call the C-Suite of big enterprises their den today. Among all the other pieces of great words and valuable advice, the one that came across as most striking was 'Dude, once you graduate from here, don't get into a job, you are supposed to ‘create’ jobs now, you know!'

For some unknown reason, that never fit into its place in my brain. Soon I forgot about it and carried on with the bigger challenge at hand, the subjects to learn at the course. 'If that was so easy to realize on day one, why would someone be going through the rigor of this life changing experience called MBA. Just give it some time and it will come to you", I thought.  Of course I didn't create jobs after graduating, I just got myself one happily. "Wow, I know a lot about organisational behavior now, let me learn something on the ground and I can create jobs later for all the virtue that’s attached to it". I am still wondering if that was an excuse, because I am not willing to accept someone can procrastinate being an entrepreneur. Those two things don't go together in a lifetime, they say. 

Recently, I was reminded of it again, when one of my fellow batch mates posted a job requirement for a company he founded less than a year ago. Now I had to find an answer to get me some peace of mind, it just wouldn't let me be. And, I have just found one this morning! I still don't know if it makes any sense, but what the heck, it serves its purpose.

And the answer is , "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". (It’s the law of reciprocity, a law!) I have been doing a job until now only because someone created it right? I don't know if this is only another way I have found to be free of some guilt for not creating jobs, and maybe someday (or later today) I’ll laugh at myself for misinterpreting a law, but at the moment it makes perfect sense to me. Why subject others to do something you want to get out of yourself, just because it's not that high a pursuit anymore? 

Having said that, I have nothing against all the great people in the world who created employment for large populations and made sure a million men had a roof and bread for their families, I am no one to even judge them. Also, here is all due respect to those who have joined the start-up bandwagon. (I have a very different issue with the whole concept of employment by the way, but save it for another day.) However, I am clear of one thing, that no set criterion in the world makes you eligible or ineligible to create a job. Even creating is a job after all, no matter whom you are doing it for!