Daily FI discussion thread - May 26, 2020

"Pursue your passion" isn't always good financial advice (very few people get rich off a degree in ancient Greek literature no matter how deeply they love it), but honestly, if business/sales is your passion go for it. Among things that are in general lucrative you will in fact make more money doing something you love and are good at than something you hate and are mediocre at, because you'll find it easier to work hard at it, and the income ceiling on commissioned sales is crazy high. The people saying they regret it mostly got there because they picked a business major thinking it was boring but it'd make them rich without effort and discovered that's not how it works.

However, I strongly recommend that you try it out before you commit. Get a job as frontline retail or something and find out whether you actually enjoy selling things to people and are actually good at it. You don't want to sink four years and tens of thousands of dollars and get your first job at 22 selling cars and discover you're mediocre at it in practice and hate your life.

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