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I was eating lunch with one of my friends. We are both in high school so we were talking about college/careers. He told me he wanted to be a chiropractor. Then i asked him "why?" He told me he wanted to earn a decent living and enjoy his life. He also told me that after 20 years of working a dead end 9-5 he wants to start up a "chiropractor" office. Then he cant retire happily. I asked him why he doesnt want to aim higher with whatever and make more money. He told me he would rather make less money and enjoy his life instead of making more money and working harder/not enjoying life. I HATE when people say this. People automatically assume that more money means more work. This is wrong. Let take into context entrepreneurs. Sure, the first couple of years will be hard. We have to work harder then anyone else. We have to stay up late nights not because we are watching Tv, but because we are thinking of strategies to improve our business. Instead of going to parties or hanging out with friends, we spend our fridays researching our competition. Instead of worrying about when the next hot video game comes out, we worry about our google page rank. It may not even be that hard for some people. But us entrepreneurs have the end goal in our mind. The end goal is to be self-sufficient. It is not about the money. It is about not being controlled by anyone else but ourselves. Our future is not controlled by higher bosses who dont even know our names. It is controlled by ourselves. The thing is if we acknowledge this goal, we are already half way their. We have broke the cycle we have been force fed since birth.
I am currently a senior in high school. I am asian and if we dont go to college we are automatically we failure. We dont make our own dreams to follow. We have certain dreams laid out by our parents (doctor, lawyer) and we have to choose one and learn to like it. Well i am done with this thinking. I have worked my a$$ off throughout high school taking 11 college level classes. Getting A's and B's in all my classes. Staying up all night just to finish my homework. Then came when i had to take the SAT's. I got a 1720 first time without studying. My parents were highly dissapointed. I was also dissapointed in myself. Then the second time i studied super hard for probobly 2 hours a day 7 days a week. The results came back yesterday. I scored a 1620, 100 points lower after studying. My parents are basically done with me and now they are going to watch me all day making sure i do nothing but school and sat work.
I am not going to lie i was skeptical about the entrepreneurship thing. I found this website last year and ever since then i was on and off about whether i wanted to take the risk of entrepreneurship. I have finally decided i will take the risk.
Sorry this turned into a long rant. I just had to get it off my chest
I am currently a senior in high school. I am asian and if we dont go to college we are automatically we failure. We dont make our own dreams to follow. We have certain dreams laid out by our parents (doctor, lawyer) and we have to choose one and learn to like it. Well i am done with this thinking. I have worked my a$$ off throughout high school taking 11 college level classes. Getting A's and B's in all my classes. Staying up all night just to finish my homework. Then came when i had to take the SAT's. I got a 1720 first time without studying. My parents were highly dissapointed. I was also dissapointed in myself. Then the second time i studied super hard for probobly 2 hours a day 7 days a week. The results came back yesterday. I scored a 1620, 100 points lower after studying. My parents are basically done with me and now they are going to watch me all day making sure i do nothing but school and sat work.
I am not going to lie i was skeptical about the entrepreneurship thing. I found this website last year and ever since then i was on and off about whether i wanted to take the risk of entrepreneurship. I have finally decided i will take the risk.
Sorry this turned into a long rant. I just had to get it off my chest
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