Being Unscripted is knowing when it's time to go for it and start a business, but I also think it's knowing when it's not the right time too.
A couple years ago I was going to school for Mechanical Engineering and ended up flunking out due to a lack of motivation, discipline, and the fact that my parents were paying my way. I got sucked into the #HUSTLE entrepreneurship craze, dreaming of owning my own business, working on the beach, yet action faking the whole way.
I feel like I'm not ready yet, financially and emotionally, to start a successful business. I haven't developed the confidence and discipline to make it work.
2.5 years down the drain. Since I dropped out I've been working shitty jobs and grinding away towards nothing.
A recent conversation with a family member (who just graduated in Petroleum and landed a great job with great pay) has sparked the idea that maybe I should go back to school. I feel that since experiencing the other side (working shit jobs for shit pay), I have matured more and developed an actual work ethic.
I need something. Some kind of win. To prove to myself that I'm not a failure, quitter, can do the hard things, and finish what I start.
Maybe business isn't the right path for me at this moment and that's ok.
Maybe I need to climb the mountain that I quit at base camp years ago.
A couple years ago I was going to school for Mechanical Engineering and ended up flunking out due to a lack of motivation, discipline, and the fact that my parents were paying my way. I got sucked into the #HUSTLE entrepreneurship craze, dreaming of owning my own business, working on the beach, yet action faking the whole way.
I feel like I'm not ready yet, financially and emotionally, to start a successful business. I haven't developed the confidence and discipline to make it work.
2.5 years down the drain. Since I dropped out I've been working shitty jobs and grinding away towards nothing.
A recent conversation with a family member (who just graduated in Petroleum and landed a great job with great pay) has sparked the idea that maybe I should go back to school. I feel that since experiencing the other side (working shit jobs for shit pay), I have matured more and developed an actual work ethic.
I need something. Some kind of win. To prove to myself that I'm not a failure, quitter, can do the hard things, and finish what I start.
Maybe business isn't the right path for me at this moment and that's ok.
Maybe I need to climb the mountain that I quit at base camp years ago.
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