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Update: Thank you everyone for your support! It makes me feel way more confident about my choice here.
A month ago I checked in making $2.5K a month. This week marks my first $5K month. I don't even know how to feel. This is absolutely insane.
I'm a seventeen year old senior student in high school with a mobile car detailing business. Since my last post, I hired three employees--one exterior cleaner, one interior cleaner, and one salesperson in training. I've started to work on my business in secret because my parents want me to go down the typical slowlane college path, so when they saw my grades slipping, they grounded me and told me to focus only on school. That's when I hired and trained my employees to do work on my behalf. I still haven't told my parents how much I make, and decision day for college is this Tuesday. The only people who know are my girlfriend and sister.
I'm fully convinced now that I'm going to take a gap year to go all in on this business. Today I made $242 in door to door sales in 50 minutes while I pretended to be at school studying. I'm absolutely sure I could scale this to be huge if I could be a full time entrepreneur.
I'm going to be telling my parents about my choice very soon. I'm fairly sure that this will cause a massive division, but at this point with the income I'm making and the fact that I become an adult in two months, its more up to me than it is to them.
I'm posting here looking for advice from guys with more experience. What do you do when your own family is so scripted that they don't support you? Will there be a point when the amount I'm making is "enough" for them to consider my decision here reasonable? What can I do to make them see it the way I see it?
Luckily my girlfriend's parents are extremely supportive and offered me their home to live in for a few weeks if I need to once I turn 18. I think I might have to do this if my gap year announcement makes the tension too thick at home.
Wish me luck.
A month ago I checked in making $2.5K a month. This week marks my first $5K month. I don't even know how to feel. This is absolutely insane.
I'm a seventeen year old senior student in high school with a mobile car detailing business. Since my last post, I hired three employees--one exterior cleaner, one interior cleaner, and one salesperson in training. I've started to work on my business in secret because my parents want me to go down the typical slowlane college path, so when they saw my grades slipping, they grounded me and told me to focus only on school. That's when I hired and trained my employees to do work on my behalf. I still haven't told my parents how much I make, and decision day for college is this Tuesday. The only people who know are my girlfriend and sister.
I'm fully convinced now that I'm going to take a gap year to go all in on this business. Today I made $242 in door to door sales in 50 minutes while I pretended to be at school studying. I'm absolutely sure I could scale this to be huge if I could be a full time entrepreneur.
I'm going to be telling my parents about my choice very soon. I'm fairly sure that this will cause a massive division, but at this point with the income I'm making and the fact that I become an adult in two months, its more up to me than it is to them.
I'm posting here looking for advice from guys with more experience. What do you do when your own family is so scripted that they don't support you? Will there be a point when the amount I'm making is "enough" for them to consider my decision here reasonable? What can I do to make them see it the way I see it?
Luckily my girlfriend's parents are extremely supportive and offered me their home to live in for a few weeks if I need to once I turn 18. I think I might have to do this if my gap year announcement makes the tension too thick at home.
Wish me luck.
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