Flush the Toilet: Young Entrepreneurs

I guess that I always pretty much did the opposite of what everybody else did in life. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s that opposite is good. Right now as I sit at home and write this entry, most of my peers are sleeping so that they can wake up early to go to their jobs.

I chose to do the opposite of what pretty much all of my friends are doing by not getting a “job,”and I really can’t see myself ever getting a 9 – 5 job like them. It’s really just not for me. I can definitely respect some one who does the 9 – 5 thing because I definitely know how hard it is.

My last job was on Wall Street and I had to wake up, get this, 4.30 every morning, put on a tight-ass suit, get a one-and-a-half hour ride into the city, then take a train for half-an-hour. Then I had to do it all the way home, 5 days a week. Talk about stress.

If there’s one thing that I noticed about all of the places that I’ve worked before it’s that pretty much everybody working there hates their job. Surprised? I’m not and that’s one of the reasons that I chose to do the opposite of what every one else is doing and to simply do what I love everyday, running my own internet company.

Students really need to learn from an early age not to get caught in a job that you’re going to be unhappy doing. As entrepreneurs, we have to be smarter than that. Always seek a job that is going to compliment your own business, if you happen to go the 9-5 route.

Sure, my friends will probably be making more cash than I’ll be making for some time by working a 9 -5 and having the stability that goes along with it, but I’ve never been one for stability and safety. I go with my gut and my gut tells me to stick it out and keep at the business by any means necessary.

The sacrifices we entrepreneurs make now will payoff many times over when our businesses takeoff while our peers chose to play it safe and not take any risks (and still making 50k per year).

You really have to make your mark in life in your 20’s. Those are the years that you take the biggest risk and go all out for what you want out of life, the years that will define the rest of your life.

Like I always say, entrepreneurs have to make their own futures, not wait for them because the world doesn’t always give you want you want. In this life you have to go out there and take what you want, make what you want, and seek what you want.

What you want is only a thought away, but you’ll need the courage to actually go out there and create it. That’s the hardest and the easiest part, but it’s necessary. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m willing to take a gamble for success by giving up the security, stability, and the protection that comes from a 9-5 job.

Someone once asked me why I truly found it so hard to work a normal job, to which I responded:

The hardest thing for me is knowing that every second, every minute, and every day that I spend away from doing what I love in life, means that I am that much further from reaching my goals – that much further from attaining success – that much further from carrying out my dreams in life.