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Originally Posted by scottybuzz
sorry i didnt reply sooner, i was in a different mood this morning. I understand what you mean, if I do start raising my revenue then I may think about it, Im hoping to go to college in 2007 to do business and running my own little business would hopefully be a win win situation, even if its adult orientated, im still learning all the same techniques. but yeh your advice is good, not so much stop, cancel everything and try to make or break it, but have a trial period of a year to see how you do and if you can grow or not.
But for me I just dont think I have the discipline, whether that is my age or not, probably, but for me to really work, honestly I do need a employer. thats the sad truth of it all. I would only feel comfortable with a guarenteed wage coming in and I would work properly instead of for example checking my stats all the time and always running down stairs to get a sandwich etc.
But I take what you say on board and will bare in mind when we arrive next year and see my current situation and whether things have gone up or down.
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I really wouldn't even suggest taking time off to be honest after high school. I know people that took off the first year and never went to college. It was a lot harder for them to go because they were working more since they were not in school and they were making what seemed like a lot to an 17 - 18 guy. At 18 with basically no bills if you make $300 a week you living large, you dont want to go to school and have to work just to pay for school or work less because of school (that was their mentality) but when 22,23,24 came along and they were still living at home, working, making $300 a week it wasn't cool anymore. Everyone else was out of college making 500+ a week and starting careers.
I wouldn't take a year off unless you had a real good reason to. I wouldn't take time off at all to *try* something else. The whole point of what I was saying is if you start something on the side, part time, while you are in school and it starts making more money then you can make from your "future career", then you would be crazy not to put school on hold and persue your own business.
School could always be plan B, working foryourself should always be plan A. If you have success with Plan A then you put Plan B on the shelf. If you can't make it on your own keep trying, but do it while you are getting you education so you have something to fall back on if you are never successful with it.
BTW Plan C is finding a nice rich girl, that had no brothers or sisters and marrying her. Plan C didn't work for me
but it is a good one to throw in the mix.