Last week I was cold calling businesses who had no website and unfortunately; my mom had heard me from downstairs.
She asked what I was doing and I hesitantly replied by saying I was playing a game with my friends, which was unusual to her as I normally don't play gsmes. She knew I was doing something business related because I used to always say I wanted to be an entrepreneur and she heard words like: sales and profit. My mom was outroutraged and she started explaining to me why starting a business was pointless at this age.
1) You need a degree. No one has succeeded in business without a degree. She then started to compare me to her older sister's son, my cousin brother, who started a business before he got a degree and started telling me how he always took loans from his parents because of little capital; ultimately, never succeeding. Even though it has only been two years since he started his own company, a design agency.
2) Afterwards, she started telling me how people are respected for their careers and it doesn't matter how much money they make. Her idea of success is a person who is a doctor, engineer or a lawyer. But here's the annoying part, she likes the idea of a professional high-paying job because one of her older brothers is a doctor, who has a high income and drives a car my parents have never considered; financed by the way.
The way entrepreneurs and CEOs are portrayed in movies (people who stepped on other people to get to where they are today) has made her think that entrepreneurs are generally bad people. My dad even said at one point
She asked what I was doing and I hesitantly replied by saying I was playing a game with my friends, which was unusual to her as I normally don't play gsmes. She knew I was doing something business related because I used to always say I wanted to be an entrepreneur and she heard words like: sales and profit. My mom was outroutraged and she started explaining to me why starting a business was pointless at this age.
1) You need a degree. No one has succeeded in business without a degree. She then started to compare me to her older sister's son, my cousin brother, who started a business before he got a degree and started telling me how he always took loans from his parents because of little capital; ultimately, never succeeding. Even though it has only been two years since he started his own company, a design agency.
2) Afterwards, she started telling me how people are respected for their careers and it doesn't matter how much money they make. Her idea of success is a person who is a doctor, engineer or a lawyer. But here's the annoying part, she likes the idea of a professional high-paying job because one of her older brothers is a doctor, who has a high income and drives a car my parents have never considered; financed by the way.
The way entrepreneurs and CEOs are portrayed in movies (people who stepped on other people to get to where they are today) has made her think that entrepreneurs are generally bad people. My dad even said at one point
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