This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

Today on the James Altiger Show, in law school, a teacher would be like, oh so what kind

of law do you want to practice?

And I would say bold face in the class, I'm going to be a comedian.

I told this to this listener general of Illinois, all this stuff.

And there I kind of felt people pull back.

And that's when I felt the shame like, what am I really doing?

What if this doesn't work out?

It's almost like you have to break out of the matrix to kind of say, okay, I just spent

12 years in grade school, four years in college, three years in law school, all for this

one goal to become a lawyer, and society approves.

And you broke out of the shackles.

There must have been this enormous psychological dissonance at that moment.

Well, at first I kind of felt like a fraud because I would tell people I want to be

a comedian, but I knew I sucked.

And so like, you know, I'm telling my parents, I'm telling all these people I'm going to

be a comedian and I was bad.

And that's what kind of torture me more than anything.

So why did you decide not to be a lawyer and go for a stand-up comedy?

At the end of the day, what I'm pursuing is like trying to be my own fan.

So this is James Altiger, of course.

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