When I graduated in 1995, my mother was shocked to find out that I turned down a job offer from Procter & Gamble because I wanted to continue my tutoring business. She said I was crazy to turn it down. But the truth was, I won't really be happy working for a company, and I was already a third-generation businessman, with my lola owning a school and a department store, and my mother, a dress shop. So it was with these role models that I patterned mine and being employed and working for a company, even if it was a famous multinational - was not really high on my list!
That's why I am really glad that nowadays, going into entrepreneurship right after college and even studying entrepreneurship is already something acceptable! It was difficult for me then since I went to UP and UP students don't do business well at that time - I guess even now. But anyhow, with all these talk about entrepreneurship as a career - I am glad that the youth are being given that option and being shown that it is an attractive career as well!
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