Life Should Be an adventure!

When I was little in the 1950s I looked at people's lives and thought to myself that life was only about drudgery and boredom. However, as I moved forward in my life and the world changed a great deal in the 1960s and 1970s especially in California where I lived, I and my friends tried new ways of thinking about things and I combined a college education with thinking about things in more creative and more entrepreneurial ways. In my genertation of baby boomers 34% of us were entrepreneurs who started or bought businesses sooner or later in life. Most people can't wear enough hats in their early 20s but by their late 20s often people like myself could wear enough hats (have enough different kinds of skills through experience) to start their own businesses. I personally found the challenges of owning a business fun. It was sort of like playing chess where you have to be very skillful and sometimes work 7 days a week for awhile. But, if you learn enough you can move forward and can eventually make much more money than you could in any other way to help your family and friends by owning your own business. So, I found starting about age 28 that owning a business was an ongoing adventure. And often, there were adventures in times when you were able to take off from running your business long enough to go on actual adventures with your family in the form of adventures around the world.

Today, student loans likely are one of the biggest obstacles to young people being able to start businesses like I and my friends did. Back then, I personally took advantage of going to a community college and transferring up eventually to UCSC  in my junior year. This made my education far less expensive by going to  community college first. Thinking about how much your education costs is very important to your future because people like President Obama and his wife each were paying off student loans into their mid 40s. Of course they were studying to be lawyers but still I think they were paying off student loans still by 45 years of age. This is something to think about as you head to college.