I have to respond to the above post about failing and having nothing to fall back on
My first restaurant dropped me for 250,000.00. A true failure, yet did I have nothing to fall back on since I decided that college was a load of cow pucky and did not finish it. The same with other higher forms of education where free thought and individuality were not only frowned upon but seen as a detriment.
NO NO NO.
First, to reiterate. If there is no chance of failure you are not taking enough risk.
To quote Henry Ford- "There is a reason why I have made the rearview mirror so small and the front windshield so big!"
I took my lessons from the school of failure and learned well. I took a break and went to serving tables for 3 years. Then I jumped right back into owning a restaurant. There is ample oppourtunities for success out there you just have to have drive, passion and vision. And not expect to live a high life in the first few years.
I am sorry but I do not agree that school is an absolute need.
How many people out there got their education and found a great job, with only one draw back. They hate their job, sure it pays the bills, sure it gives them financial freedom and security. Yet, deep down within they lack fulfillment and satisfaction, always being knawed at by the what if factor.
Freedom comes with a price that is for sure, but it is well worth the cost when you outweigh the cost to benefit.
Take where I am. My wife and kids can come hang out with me whenever they want all day long if they want.
Sure we own and drive a 1985 suburban and a 1991 suburban, BUT THEY ARE PAID FOR!!!! Sure we could own brand new off the lot top of the line vehicles but really are they a need?? Why did I choose older cars/trucks?
Well I can fit a 7 ft tank in the back with ease and own the older vehicle enabled us to work on owning these
I pick the last one up mid spring as by then it is fully paid for.
I love how those who push education being a must say people without education get no where. How people who say it is an absolute need say in today's world you will not rise above without it. Now I am not saying that people on this thread are saying that, but, rather that I have met more than my share of people who have said this.
Matter of factly, I can recall people who scoffed when I stepped out to go into business in 1998. Talking all kinds of smack when I started. Boy you should have heard them talk when I lost the 1/4 million and such with the first restaurant. So I took a week off just to rest up and I had a waitering job 2 days into the second week, (making 70,000.00 per year working part time).
Still to this day I do not regret dirtnapping with my first business, I still retain over 150,000.00 in capital loss tax write off's. So much for those who told me I had to do bankruptcy.
I will finish off with saying one thing. When I think of the education route versus the work route. An image of 2 types of horses comes to mind A RACE HORSE and A WORK HORSE.
People spend all that time in stasis in school and then come out of the shoot with a bang( but how much debt and stress come with them) and people who choose the other road put their heads down and pull the load with one thing accomplishing the task at hand.
TO THE ORIGIONAL POSTER:
You must follow your heart and dreams, for without them you are but a shell of a human being never knowing true life is found in the living of it. If you sell out your heart and dreams you have traded life for existance, much like selling your birthright for a bowl of stew!!!!!!
If it be that school is for you go for it find the right school. If not you will find what it is that you are meant to be and do. Above all things in this world do not put your soul on the market, above all things to your own self be true so that at the end of the day and your life for that matter you can look in the mirror and know that you have not mispent yourself.
