/eg/ - Entreprenuership General

/eg/ - Entreprenuership General
> First edition

Recommended reading (can be found on libgen)
>The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
>Zero to one (Peter Thiel)
>The Millionaire Fastlane (MJ Demarco)

What do you want out of life?

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MIT has some absolutely fantastic courses as well, free online.
>ocw.mit.edu/courses/entrepreneurship/topic-list/

I hope this can become a reoccuring thread. I was a bit disappointed seeing the "Business & Finance" board be nothing but cryptocurrency for years.

I suppose I'll preach to emptiness, better than just saying "bumping"

It's about 2AM over here and I've just been thinking about my friends I've graduated with. It makes me sad to see how little people care about changing their lives or making an impact in the world, no matter how small, not even a dent. I graduated high school this summer and about 90% of my friends are going into massive debt to local unis (USA) for shit like Cybersec or Comp sci degrees ... which aren't bad on their own, and they're good schools, but they never showed much drive or initiative to do these technical things in the first place. But that's not what I'm really worried about, they're average, if not below average work ethic/talent/passion in computers and they are taking GIGANTIC fucking debt for a degree in the most competitive field in the region. They will all be in debt for over a decade at least. Imagine graduating from university only to have a fucking shackle over you. You will have to immediately get a job that you will most likely hate, since compsci is uber competitive and a lot of it is code monkey work that is low paying and then they'll probably have to climb up the corporate ladder or some other bullshit like that all while interest begins to pile up.

I lucked out, in all honesty. Despite being raised by a single Asian mother who was very hard on academics for my sibling (got a full ride somewhere, went to law school in Melbourne Australia and is now a corporate lawyer) she was actually quite alright with me going to community college. Since I live with a single unemployed mother I maxed out on the FAFSA, and ended up getting fucking paid to do my classes. My first 2 years of uni are essentially free, and with some saving and maybe a lucky scholarship, I could graduate with my Bachelors in IT (meme degree? sure.) without any debt, and if any, it would be around less than $10k.

Like I said, I was lucky. But Community College is a logistically great option that is much more affordable for everyone else. But why do people not do it? Quite simple, it's the culture. The USA is nothing like Asia where in Korea they literally study themselves to death or kill themselves if they don't do good on their uni entrance exams, yet we've still managed to keep the romanticized emotion for university. I admit, I have too, and I feel a bit bad for going to a community college because it means I'll be a tiny bit late going to a in person campus and meeting new people and doing "college life" shit which is very important to me.

But it's the stigma. Community College is seen for stupid people, it's the "last choice", the, "oh you're going to community college? ah, okay, I'm actually going to Virginia Tech haha" that is enforced by peers. The first part has some merit though. There are many, many unintelligent people in my community college classes. But in the end, they're not going to go into debt if much at all and get their associates, probably transfer somewhere and save about half of their tuition.

This. I'm a wagecuck looking for a better way of life, and all I see are crypto threads. I appreciate threads like this, as empty as it is.

I'm finally gonna do it. probably some dumbass little Etsy store but It will teach me the ropes. Wish me luck, Bros.

Thanks man, that means a lot to me. I hope this can go somewhere. I'll make a better OP next time with good info

It's still the stigma, more of a cultural and emotional issue than a logical one than anything. It's cool to go to a cool school. But zoomers nowadays are advocating very heavily for student loan cancellation and free college and stuff, like what Bernie wants and shit, but a practical solution is already here in the USA with community college, I am quite hopeful it'll start slowly becoming a more relevant option for upcoming graduating high school students with less of a negative reputation around it, this pandemic has seen a lot of "Is college worth it?" "Student loan crisis in the USA" videos on Youtube made by big channels that reach a lot of people, might not seem like much because it's just Youtube videos but that idea is beginning to grow, people are waking up and realizing that taking an average of $30k student loans is fucking killing us.

I think there are quite a few potential entrepreneurs out there in the world whos ideas and creativity were killed by the chain dragging them down after uni graduation.

What're you making? If you do pull through which I hope you do, I'll buy something.

I'm teaching myself web development and AWS (Amazon Web Services), I'm very confident that in a year of deliberate practice I could make a decent side hustle off of it. Preparing for my first industry certification.

>What do you want out of life?

Nothing, I'd like to be dead.

What makes you feel this way?