A short YouTube monologue by Jesse Ewell addressing how friends and family often push back when someone starts a new business or career. The speaker reframes such backlash as a possible signal that you're on the right track and emphasizes that entrepreneurship requires commitment, passion, and personal responsibility because no one will 'save' you as they might in a job.
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There's always the opinions of other people. So when you go out and decide you're going to start your own business or start a new career, you know, oftentimes the people closest to you are the ones who are going to give you the most backlash or kind of speak against it. And I think a lot of times that's their own opinion, that's their own belief, or that's their own thoughts or stories, whatever it is. I think at the end of the day, if someone is giving you that backlash or that feedback, that actually means you're on the right track. You know, the thing is, is you expect everybody around you to support you. And as an entrepreneur, you have to be very committed and very passionate about what you're doing and realize that what's different between being an entrepreneur and working at a job is that no one is going to save you as an entrepreneur. It's not a risk everybody's willing to take, and so you really have to be passionate about stepping into that.