Business Advice

**caravel** · 12-15-2009, 17:06

Have you considered a lucrative and exciting new career in camel breeding?

**Mithrandir** · 12-15-2009, 17:07

Originally Posted by Asai Nagamasa

Have you considered a lucrative and exciting new career in camel breeding?

Or teaching Tae Kwon Do to the adopted camels who didn't receive training at birth

**Zain** · 12-15-2009, 18:10

Haha, so common consensus is do it. But then I'm being told to wait. The whole idea is that I am going to do it, and the opportunity is now but it will come again.

Should I wait and keep my youth and freedom or go ahead and start on my career? I'm 18 and 1/2 exactly in about 11 days.

**Togakure** · 12-15-2009, 19:55

I'd say B. Your educational path compliments the family opportunity you're being offered. For me, the trick was getting into my career field full time before finishing my degree. It gave me a distinct edge when competing against those who graduated with me. Sounds like you have an opportunity to do this too.

Meh: Fun Shmun. What has been said is true to a degree, but I've found that balancing fun with smart planning and smart, hard work while youthful will provide more "fun" later in life, while protecting you from a lot of "un-fun." It's not particularly fun to look back at all the fun you had in your youth when you're older, under-funded, dreamed out, and opportunities to improve your situation are so much more scarce and harder to realize.

So ... it's up to you. Are you in the US? Where you live affects the potential impact of living a more "care-free" youth. The US isn't real kind to those who don't plan effectively for the future. Trust me on that, heh.

Planning is good, hard work is good, fun is good--and so are adaptation skills. Everything can change in a New York minute ....

**Zain** · 12-15-2009, 21:06

Originally Posted by Masamune

I'd say B. Your educational path compliments the family opportunity you're being offered. For me, the trick was getting into my career field full time before finishing my degree. It gave me a distinct edge when competing against those who graduated with me. Sounds like you have an opportunity to do this too.

Meh: Fun Shmun. What has been said is true to a degree, but I've found that balancing fun with smart planning and smart, hard work while youthful will provide more "fun" later in life, while protecting you from a lot of "un-fun." It's not particularly fun to look back at all the fun you had in your youth when you're older, under-funded, dreamed out, and opportunities to improve your situation are so much more scarce and harder to realize.

So ... it's up to you. Are you in the US? Where you live affects the potential impact of living a more "care-free" youth. The US isn't real kind to those who don't plan effectively for the future. Trust me on that, heh.

Planning is good, hard work is good, fun is good--and so are adaptation skills. Everything can change in a New York minute ....

I am in one of the cheaper parts of the US to live, South Texas, and in that comes the opportunity to live on the family farm, or live with my parents until I get married. Which I'm seeing to be in about a year.

Overall, I can see both angles and am torn between the two. I've always been one for looking and planning ahead, as well as been the kind of guy that will randomly get up and visit a friend late into the night just for fun. This will be something that goes away, either my spontinuity, or my rest levels.

**Major Robert Dump** · 12-16-2009, 19:16

The problem with working in your family business is that you can't sleep you way to the top. Unless it Oklahoma.

**Fragony** · 12-17-2009, 11:00

Originally Posted by Zain

Haha, so common consensus is do it. But then I'm being told to wait. The whole idea is that I am going to do it, and the opportunity is now but it will come again.

Should I wait and keep my youth and freedom or go ahead and start on my career? I'm 18 and 1/2 exactly in about 11 days.

Best thing about a 40 hour workweek is doing it twice. Combine it, having experience as a manager at a young age is going to serve you very very well. It isn't going to ruin your youth and freedom, it will provide it to you just that much sooner. Having money = independence, being able to do whatever you want to do. Like opening your own radio station, or whatever.