Hey fam, putting this question out there that has been bothering me. Been in Consulting for 5 years now, which is all of my professional life. Just came back from an overseas trip where I (cont.)

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If you’re young and single or don’t have people relying on your income, this is the time to try. Once you have obligations, it becomes increasingly more difficult.

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P1 is right. My experience is that professional jobs like ours are “get moderately rich slowly” schemes. This translates into saving very little money in your 20s (because pay is low); saving very little in your 30s (because pay is still low and your life expenses spike up), saving quite a bit in your 40s (pay spikes and life expenses hold steady), saving a ton in your 50s (pay stays high and life expenses fall). Here’s the trick — give entrepreneurship a try early, surround yourself with people who have real business experience (you’re smart, but experience is “smarter” than you, so listen to it!), and set a go/no-go in no more than 2-3 years. You will know that fast whether your ideas are any good and whether you are any good at building/running your own business. Most people aren’t. If you’re not, declare failure early and get back on the professional track, with a valuable real life experience that will make you a better advisor. The disaster scenario is staying with a struggling/failing entrepreneurial attempt too long. There is no amount of iq and hard work that can save a flawed business idea.

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^or just try a bunch of ideas. An acquaintance of mine had two failed startups before he had an idea that hit ($100M exit) and his forth startup (Skillz) is the fastest growing company in America.

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(cont.) saw entrepreneurship, problem solving, and of course money making in full bloom. In 2 minds now: stay in the fluffy world of consulting where there’s money and a comfortable life or try to build something to solve actual problems and be prepared to struggle ?

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ATK1 has it. Take risk now. It’s almost impossible to take risk when you have 3 kids and a mortgage...

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ATK1 - Absolutely agree. Great post

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D1- very cool, my friend left deloitte to go to skillz, he seems to love it there, I was thinking of joining later.

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