Why Starting A Business Is the Best Idea for Collegiates

By Uloop Archives on November 19, 2013

In today’s day and age, co-eds are fed a variety of drivel from countless sources that are older, wiser, and know better than we.

Get a degree.

Get a good degree.

Get a good degree that will you get you a job.

Stay in said job until you a) get a promotion to a better job or b) die. How else do you expect to pay off student loans from that degree you just got?

Presently we live in an economy where jobs are out there, but scarce and hard to get for someone just leaving the warm and comforting university bubble with a few internships and little to no actual job experience. ?Let’s face it: no one is going to hire a 22-year-old with a shiny new degree when they can hire a 30-year-old with a degree plus an additional eight years of employment.

Hence the reason why about 50 percent of new college grads are unemployed.

BUT THERE IS HOPE!?There is something that we millennial have that our older counterparts do not! And that beautiful phrase is:

Technological literacy.

What a damn beautiful phrase. ?We of FacebookTwitterSnapchatFollowMeOnInstagramDidYouReadMyBlog vernacular have an easy way with new technology that no generation before us has ever had. ?We have the power to make super awesome new things that are salient not just to us, but to those older than we are who would never have thought of using technology in this way and to those younger than us who are going to be more technologically literate than we are!

There are so many fantastic ways to use this newfound power. ?The days of blogging are here to stay and have provided people with huge opportunities for success elsewhere. ?Look at Brian Stelter. ?The man started a blog, which he then sold to a media company (while in college), then got hired by The New York Times two months later, and now works for CNN.

How about Jeni of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream? ?What started as a one-woman ice cream creation machine has now turned into not only my favorite thing in the whole world other than pizza, but a staple in Columbus and now across the country with her home delivery service.

Why can’t you be the next Brian Stelter or Jeni Britton Bauer? ?Why?!

The only way to be successful, in my opinion, is to provide something to the universe that was not there before you arrived. ?Do awesome stuff that you think is awesome, especially if no one else is doing it, and you may just become wildly successful. ?Or you may not, but at least you tried. ?And then you’ll have a really neat point on your resume now of that one time you tried to start your own business before deciding you would be better served at the company you’re applying (see where I’m going with this?).

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