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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.

why here

I discovered an interesting website today and I wanted to share some of the videos that I found there. The messages given are not new for me any more (after a year living close to American universities and Silicon Valley in general), but they might be useful for my family and friends to understand why I’m here.

• Passion for work (video)
• Persistence pays off (video)
• Experience is overrated (video)
• The strengths of Silicon Valley (video)
• Can entrepreneurship be taught? (video)
• Perseverance: sticking to your beliefs (video)
• A member of the CEO minority (video)
• Entrepreneurs: then and now (pre and post 2001) (video)

Anyone still doesn’t understand why I’m here? ;)

Update: Pepe was in fact the one who found this website and gave me the link and he is requesting a mention :)