So…What’s your parent’s life?
Mortgage payments?
Debt, debt, and more debt?
A minivan?
Vacations spent at home…broke?
Working 50 hours a week 50 weeks a year for 50 years?
Retire poverty stricken on social security?

Is that what you have in mind for your life? Is that what your parents’ advice is going to get you? Is that your idea of success?

If so, great…If not…!

Here at “Not Your Parents Life” we like to show entrepreneurs some options that maybe their parents haven’t told them about. Maybe your parents don’t even know about them at all.

What do you want your life to be like?
A house in the hamptons, because that’s where it happens?
No debt at all, because you pay cash?
An Escalade with spinners and underglows, or a Hennessee Viper, just because you can?
Vacations…24/7 wherever, whenever, with whoever?
Retired young and rich because you think outside the box?
Job free on residual income, because you were in the right place at the right time?

Here’s the first thing you have to understand. The advice your parents give you is “for your own good”. Unfortunately it’s the advice that got them where they are today. If you want to make a million dollars a year, then you have to get advice from people who make a million dollars a year.

Here are some things to think about:
The average college graduate earns $34,000 a year
The average High school graduate earns $18,000 a year
That means by the time the college graduate has a bachelors and $80,000 of debt, the high school graduate has already earned $72,000 dollars. The college graduate has to work to the age of 32 in order to catch up to the high school graduates total earnings at the same age. If college was an investment in real-estate or the stock market you wouldn’t make the investment at all because the return isn’t fast enough.

In contrast:
The average small home business owner (no employees) earns an average of $49,855, with all education levels taken into account.

That means that the high school graduate with a job, or the college graduate with a job is never going to catch up to the small business owner. Whether you are a high school graduate or a college graduate if you want to make more money you have to start a business.