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Two speakers debate the social media narrative that 9-to-5 jobs are for losers. One warns that most people won't succeed as influencers or entrepreneurs, and keeping a degree means you can always return to corporate work if your startup fails.
Two speakers debate the social media narrative that 9-to-5 jobs are for losers. One warns that most people won't succeed as influencers or entrepreneurs, and keeping a degree means you can always return to corporate work if your startup fails.
The other big challenge in today's society is that there's this whole narrative that you should quit your 9 to 5, you gotta start your own thing, like getting a job is for losers. Like, there's that kind of notion in the air of social media that people are also facing. It's adversity for them to stick on their path.
I'm worried about that. There's an extension of that too, that you don't even need a degree anymore, just, you know, go straight into a vocation or whatever, just go be a social media influencer, which is great. Some people are gonna be super successful. Right. I mean, now that I'm in the social media world, I got a lot of friends that have done extraordinarily well and they'll be fine. But to some extent, this is like Michael Jordan being out saying, "Don't worry, just go play basketball. You'll be fine." Not everybody can do this. I mean, not everybody's an entrepreneur. Not everybody has the personality to be a social media influencer star, whatever. The odds of success, I think, are very limited. So my advice to young people is, look, if you want to be an entrepreneur, be an entrepreneur, but check a couple of boxes. Well, check the degree box so you have an ability to pivot.
Yeah.
If you wash out as an entrepreneur, there's always the corporate world.
Yeah.
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