Entrepreneurship vs stewardship

Is being an employee like Jacob and Joseph an unprofitable, cursed thing?  Can everyone be an entrepreneur?  When is the right time to become an entrepreneur, if you have to? Can the woes of civil servants and the lowly paid in private businesses be resolved by resorting to entrepreneurship or dialogue with their employers?
Only Jacob was a true employee and Joseph was a slave. Jacob ran away empty-handed from his angry brother Esau. He had no capital or even a place to stay in. Without capital or land he could not do his own thing even if he had excellent entrepreneurial skills. So it was not a cursed or unprofitable thing for Jacob to lean on Laban for employment.
In his employment of over a decade he got food, accommodation and two wives as was agreed upon. True his hard work and faithfulness greatly increased Laban’s wealth but it is also true that he got his capital and wealth from Laban.
Joseph was not an employee but a slave of Potiphar. His faithfulness and hard work remarkably increased His master’s prosperity though he had nothing to his name. That was expected since he was not free a man.
The important point to note in the cases of Jacob and Joseph is that their affairs were being controlled by the invisible hand of God. Their faithfulness in their circumstances caused Jacob to eventually own his flock and Joseph to be promoted to the position of prime minister. God was in control and because he had a bigger picture in mind concerning their prosperity He designed some processes for them to go through.
Being an employee of another is not an unprofitable, cursed thing because of the following reasons.
Not everyone can start their own business because the capital outlay required cannot be easily acquired.  And most people are risk averse; they would rather make do with a stable salary than take risks.
Employment offers a wonderful opportunity to learn the ropes before calling the shots. Every good entrepreneur is one who has gone through the learning curve.
Experience has no substitute and it is better acquired from formal establishments than from the school of hard knocks or trial and error.
In most cases there is no need to reinvent the wheel but to just improve on the existing one. But for you to improve the existing one, you need exposure through formal employment.
In the opening verse above Jesus showed that He believed in being an employee first and then move to having your own thing. So the best time to start your own thing is after you faithfully served another and acquired a wealth of experience. He also revealed that God will enable one to have his own thing only if he or she has been faithful in managing another person’s business. He is consistent with His other principle that only he who is faithful over a little is set over much.  The issue of employment can never be avoided, after all every established entrepreneur becomes an employer of other people. Most private businesses are started by entrepreneurs who grow big enough to need employees.                
The woes of civil servants and the lowly paid in private business cannot be resolved by resorting to starting own businesses.
The main reason being that public service cannot be dispensed with under any circumstance. Every citizen needs some kind of service from the public institutions almost on a daily basis.
Moreover, most civil servants are professionals who have trained and qualified to render service as opposed to an entrepreneur who just needs guts to start something. So that being the case civil servants must not abandon their employment to start their own businesses but should be faithful enough to serve the nation.
On the other hand their employer must try by all means to improve the living and working conditions of civil servants as their services cannot be dispensed with.

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