I don't like traveling. I really don't. I spend most of the time feeling uncomfortable in some way (temperature isn't right, have to use the bathroom, worried about getting robbed) and it costs money! Why do people think that because they like traveling everyone else will too? And why is "go travel" considered any kind of advice? </rant>
Outcomes in the stock market and the startup world are at least somewhat correlated, which seems like a downside to being heavily invested in the stock market while committed to a startup.
"From someone who has (hopefully) only lived about a quarter of their life"<p>Do other people feel the same way? Obviously future medical advances might change my mind on this, but I would prefer to die around 80...<p>I know the cliche is "you feel that now when you're young, you wait until you're my age and say that again"... but I suspect that when I do reach that age, my main reason for not euthanizing myself would be not wanting to upset people who know me, rather than because I actually want to live to be 100 years old.
I'm sorry, but these lessons are crap. The only lesson that matters is actually from the Kenny Rogers song, The Gambler.
"The secret to survival, is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep"<p>This goes for everything, girls, goals, jobs, ideas and even food =)<p>If you know what you want, you'll never go wrong. Most people don't know what they want, and spend forever trying to find it. But then it's too late.
Your point on be an engineer is what I have been thinking lately. I am 27 as well and not in a position to be an enterpreneur. What I have realized is I need to start developing libraries(javascript/jquery) and not just use it.