By
Alika Salazar
If
you’re a young entrepreneur or planning to become one, find
something you love and stick to it. Your odds of success are better
if you are very passionate about your business and you give it 120%
all the time. Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be done. Keep
going and you’ll achieve what you want to achieve in life. Be
prepared to make some sacrifices to your personal time because the
business may require it, at least for some time. But, the reward in
the long run definitely balances out the work you have to initially
put into it. Here are a few questions I often get asked by friends
and customers.
Q:
As a young entrepreneur, have you experienced age discrimination? In
other words, has anyone ever said that you were too young to own a
successful business?
A:
Not usually. Usually they’re pretty impressed by everything that’s
going on and how much we've grown.
Q:
What kinds of hardships and obstacles did you have to overcome when
you first started your business six years ago while you were still in
school?
A:
I had to go to school from 7 am to 3 o’clock and then have to go to
work after that and work until six or seven, sometimes even later if
there were repairs that had to be done. Sometimes you have to make
sacrifices to get the job done. Owning a business is not a nine to
five job. It could be 80 hours a week.
Q:
With such a large amount of time dedicated to your business, you must
have made some big sacrifices in your social life. Can you tell us
about that?
A:
Yes. In the last year, I've worked six days a week and there’s no
end in sight right now. Most of the time, when my friends invite me
to do fun things, I tell them I have to work. When you own a
business, you have a lot of fires to put out every day.
Q:
Is it common for you to have social plans interrupted by a crisis at
work?
A:
Yeah, and then you've got to stay there longer because you have a
situation and you've got to take care of it. Or sometimes you've
got to drive somewhere to get something. You just have to do it. That
happens all the time, but it’s okay because I really do love my
work!
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