Hey everyone! It has been a very long time since I've posted, but felt like this was something that would be worthy of a post.
So, for anyone who hasn't read any of my past posts (which I am sure there are a lot of you since I haven't posted in a very long time). Long story short, I am a 21 year old franchisee for a sandwich concept- my store is currently preparing for construction, and because of this I have been working with a PR agency to draw up some excitement for my store opening which will be happening in the coming months. The PR agency got me an interview with Entrepreneur.com in their "Franchise Players" segment, which was something I was pretty excited about as I've been reading Entrepreneur since I was a kid. In the interview I pretty much talked about my experience so far as a franchisee and very briefly touched over how I saved up a large sum of money at a young age.
My curiosity got the best of me and I read the comments section on Facebook, only to see that virtually everyone who commented was doubting my story. Claiming I had to have outside help, the money probably came from my father or mother...etc. Which bothered me- initially I felt like I needed to defend myself, but then decided to just shut off my computer and let it go one ear and out the other.
Here is the link to the Facebook post so you guys can see the comments if you are interested:
https://www.facebook.com/search/str/aubrey+janik/stories-keyword/stories-live
The moral of this post is to rant a bit, because to be honest it bothered me that people so quickly doubted what I have worked so hard to accomplish over the last 5 years, and also just to show how toxic this slow lane mindset is. Nothing is "impossible", and some slowlaners will always make excuses and bring down others. Don't be that guy.
So, for anyone who hasn't read any of my past posts (which I am sure there are a lot of you since I haven't posted in a very long time). Long story short, I am a 21 year old franchisee for a sandwich concept- my store is currently preparing for construction, and because of this I have been working with a PR agency to draw up some excitement for my store opening which will be happening in the coming months. The PR agency got me an interview with Entrepreneur.com in their "Franchise Players" segment, which was something I was pretty excited about as I've been reading Entrepreneur since I was a kid. In the interview I pretty much talked about my experience so far as a franchisee and very briefly touched over how I saved up a large sum of money at a young age.
My curiosity got the best of me and I read the comments section on Facebook, only to see that virtually everyone who commented was doubting my story. Claiming I had to have outside help, the money probably came from my father or mother...etc. Which bothered me- initially I felt like I needed to defend myself, but then decided to just shut off my computer and let it go one ear and out the other.
Here is the link to the Facebook post so you guys can see the comments if you are interested:
https://www.facebook.com/search/str/aubrey+janik/stories-keyword/stories-live
The moral of this post is to rant a bit, because to be honest it bothered me that people so quickly doubted what I have worked so hard to accomplish over the last 5 years, and also just to show how toxic this slow lane mindset is. Nothing is "impossible", and some slowlaners will always make excuses and bring down others. Don't be that guy.
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