Someone turned down investment banking to open a Jimmy John's franchise after a banker suggested it. Their father told them to take risks when they had nothing to lose, so they rolled the dice, spent their savings on the franchise, and now call it the best decision they ever made.
So why did you take on a Jimmy John's franchise? Yeah, that's a really, really good question. I asked myself that for a number of years. No, it was really simple. I had an option to go out and do investment banking and sit in a cubicle and run numbers. And, you know, the other option was to go out and run a sandwich joint. The person at the investment bank had actually just done a deal with Jimmy John's and said like, hey, this is really interesting. You should take a look. I don't want to be in a cubicle. Like, Let me go take a shot. My dad was on the side of it like, you have nothing to lose right now. If you're ever going to roll the dice in your life, go after it. And so that's what I did. And it was the best decision I ever made. I had to purchase it and there were a lot of hoops to jump through. I had to clean out all my savings.
