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Young women give up employment to start businesses
5-2-2019
In its issue of today, L’Orient le Jour investigated the factors that inspire the youth to leave their steady job to build an unsecure private business. Cybel George, 25, who worked two years at a Paris architecture firm, said she was not content or happy because of the environment of hypocrisy among colleagues and the exhaustion brough by her low pay job. In many instances, she had to execute ideas or designs that she was not convinced of, she told L’Orient Le Jour reporter. She resigned and decided to start her own business, creating an online cloth rental website. It was difficult in the beginning, Cybel said, but she persevered and eventually managed to implement her undertaking. Elucidating on the nature of the private business, Cybel said it makes one live with uncertainty. It lacks the structured pattern provided by a fixed salary job at a firm, but she never regrets her decision. Similarly, Yasmina el Baba, 28, said she was happy working as an engineer at a firm in Japan, but that after three years, her urge for independence, given the limited freedom she had to execute her own ideas, pushed her to resign. With a couple of friends, she founded a small enterprise back in Lebanon. Describing work in startups as compared to big firms, Yasmina said it is less bureaucratic. Competition between employees is minimal, she explained, noting that despite long hours of work, she is happy to build something on her own. (L’Orient le Jour, February, 5, 2019)
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