Hello guys,
I have not post in a very long time, but I'm back. I will introduce myself again.
My name is Vincent, 20 years old, I live in Montreal, Canada and I am currently in Business School.
I first read The Millionaire fastlane when I was 16 years old and it opened my mind. I have read hundreds of business books since and I always cultivate my mind. I have a lot of entrepreneurship qualities and experiences. I never worked with a ''regular student job'', I always found opportunities to make money and live on it for a couple of months before starting something else again. I have never made a ton of money, but enough to live very confortable and have plenty of time for school and other activities.
Last year, I started a program where you manage a paint business for the summer. You are like a franchisee for them, they teach you everything you need to know about the paint industry. Then you need to find employee, make sales and plan production. It was a lot of work, but at the end it paid well and I was able to have a lot of free time, because I was delegating everything and it was all automated. I still had a lot of trouble with clients and a lot of stress but overall it was a great experience. I made around 80kS of sales and made about 20k$ of profit at the end of the summer.
Now I have a dilemma. They asked me if I wanted to do this again next summer and I told them that I was interested without thinking too much about it. Now that I think of it, I would really enjoy just travelling next summer and explore the world. I have a couple of friends that are willing to come with me and just travel for 5 months and do as many country and as many crazy experiences as possible. I am kind of tired of all the school, work and repetitive life here. Always seeing the same people and doing the same things, I want change and discover new things.
I would like to have your advices on this. When I did the paint business, I made so many mistakes and so many things have gone wrong and I learned so many things about entrepreneurship and life. If I do it again, I could easily double my sales and make a profit of about 60k$. I already have about 40k$ so all together would mean I could have around 100k$ to start a business or invest it somewhere else. Considering I am 20 years old, it is a big sum for me.
So what do you guys think of this? Should I just develop my business skills and make a nice amount of money or just travel and get as many experience as possible while I'm young and slow down my entrepreneurship path?
Thank you
I have not post in a very long time, but I'm back. I will introduce myself again.
My name is Vincent, 20 years old, I live in Montreal, Canada and I am currently in Business School.
I first read The Millionaire fastlane when I was 16 years old and it opened my mind. I have read hundreds of business books since and I always cultivate my mind. I have a lot of entrepreneurship qualities and experiences. I never worked with a ''regular student job'', I always found opportunities to make money and live on it for a couple of months before starting something else again. I have never made a ton of money, but enough to live very confortable and have plenty of time for school and other activities.
Last year, I started a program where you manage a paint business for the summer. You are like a franchisee for them, they teach you everything you need to know about the paint industry. Then you need to find employee, make sales and plan production. It was a lot of work, but at the end it paid well and I was able to have a lot of free time, because I was delegating everything and it was all automated. I still had a lot of trouble with clients and a lot of stress but overall it was a great experience. I made around 80kS of sales and made about 20k$ of profit at the end of the summer.
Now I have a dilemma. They asked me if I wanted to do this again next summer and I told them that I was interested without thinking too much about it. Now that I think of it, I would really enjoy just travelling next summer and explore the world. I have a couple of friends that are willing to come with me and just travel for 5 months and do as many country and as many crazy experiences as possible. I am kind of tired of all the school, work and repetitive life here. Always seeing the same people and doing the same things, I want change and discover new things.
I would like to have your advices on this. When I did the paint business, I made so many mistakes and so many things have gone wrong and I learned so many things about entrepreneurship and life. If I do it again, I could easily double my sales and make a profit of about 60k$. I already have about 40k$ so all together would mean I could have around 100k$ to start a business or invest it somewhere else. Considering I am 20 years old, it is a big sum for me.
So what do you guys think of this? Should I just develop my business skills and make a nice amount of money or just travel and get as many experience as possible while I'm young and slow down my entrepreneurship path?
Thank you
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(I now, Montreal is a big city, but that would be an interesting coincidence)
