My father is an entrepreneur. As a child, when asked what my dad’s line of work was, I would make use of that word, the most mysterious in my 5th grade vocabulary. Its meaning was nearly as ambiguous to me as my conception of what my father actually did. From my young perspective, entrepreneurship was perceived somewhat negatively—it wasn’t working for a big company, it wasn’t having a particular job, and it certainly wasn’t as cool to my elementary mind as the doctors, lawyers, and big business people who parented my friends.
