the spanish dream: finding a job for life?

Today I was asked what “the Spanish dream” was and I had to answer that I think that the Spanish dream is finding a job for life.

It was horrible to recognize that. Is it true? Or is it that I’m completely biased and since I came to the US and now consider that everything in Spain is slow, conservative and not-entrepreneurial?

I’m not sure. I hope I was wrong when I said that, but that’s what came to my mind when thinking about the ideals, and that’s what I’ve felt to be the dream wile growing up in Spain.

I admit that maybe “the dream” involves some more things such as having full weekends to party, long summer vacations to travel the world and enough money to be able to forget about it. In business, the dream can either be having a 9 to 5 job that pays enough, or being a director, manager or an important person in a multinational company. That’s at least the vision when you study at a business school: manage teams, make decisions, think strategically. Nothing wrong with it, except that it takes longer to realize that when you decided to study business you were not dreaming with managing some other people’s business, but with starting a business yourself. And somehow that dream was almost killed in the way.

Anyway, the reason I wrote this post is because I hope that someone will prove me wrong :D And if you don’t, at least I want to be sure of what’s the situation and find more people who will work to change that.

changes

I’m changing my blog’s title into Barcelona – Silicon Valley. And I’ll soon change the picture too.

9-oct 9-dec was a first step into San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Now I’m back to stay. I’m still gonna talk about lessons learned, entrepreneurship and the wonders of the Valley, seen from a European perspective and knowing that even if this is the paradise for startups, Barcelona is the paradise for life :D.

I merged my English and Spanish blogs into this one and I’m still not sure in what language I want to write. I guess both.

This is a new beginning. Let’s see what it brings.

my friends

Molt Silicon Valley però el meu cor segueix a Barcelona :D i els meus amics han fet aquest video pel cumple de l’Uri. Me han prohibido colgarlo en youtube pero es igual, es el sistema de compartir cosas para los que estamos lejos y además es una startup nacida en un garaje de Silicon Valley y una de las muchas historias de éxito :D

PD: Uri trabaja en Cocacola desde hace un mes.