It is better to work for business owned by someone else than to work for the business of one’s owned Nowadays , more and more families are prone to let their offspring to take over the enterprises . However , in my opinion , this is kinds of coward action which is escaping from the reality of the competition . As far as I concerned , working for someone else is better to improve your ability and prove yourself than working for your family . First , working for someone else will take more challenges and make you stronger through the process . In general , submitting the application in order to get the offer is common for most people to enter the companies they preferred , this process is competitive because you have to stand out from those applicants . However , working for the business of your owned family will drastically reduce the demands during the interview or even not . Indeed it can provide a more stable opportunity for you to get a job , but I don’t think that it can let you understand the reality of the competitive society under the comfort zone . In contrast , you will face lots of challenges from the interview to the actual work in other companies , for example , you have to actively learn every skills from your colleagues and accomplish the tough work demanded by the executive and so on , during the process you must to learn how to gradually improve yourself not only for promotion but your skill for this work . Eventually , you will become stronger enough to survive from the society . Second , you can take your interest as a job instead of working for the job which you don’t really like . Most of the business owned by your family isn’t attractive to you or not concerned with your major . However , you can show your interest to someone else and work for them in concerned industry . Meanwhile , it is better for your mental health to get a job you really interest , because the research has shown that the high depression from the salarymen in this decades mostly due to the job which they really don’t like . They can’t find the purpose from their work and feel stressful from lots of external factors without the motivation such as interest to the job .As a result , the business owned by others , which you can choose to do , is better than the work from the family which you have no interest with . All in all , working for someone else has more benefit than working for the family owned business .