Welcome to the 10-minute entrepreneur podcast, intended to equip and encourage business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs,

taught by active business owner, best-selling author, and teacher, Sean Castrina.

All right, this is my eight best pieces of advice for those not going to college.

My son did not want to go to college, great athlete, but wanted to be an entrepreneur.

I went to undergrad and graduate school.

So his sister went to college.

So this was kind of new for us.

I tell you where I really noticed it was like at senior night.

When everybody has these incredible fake biographies of what their kid's going to do,

and my son's going to Yale and he's majoring and such and such and such and such.

Well, my son was the captain of the team, MVP, like Hall of Fame in that sport forever, parents that are pretty

well known and affluent. So you would, you know, this was going to be a night where we would say,

oh, my son's going to do A, B, C, and D. My son said, no, I'm not going to college. I'm going to be

an entrepreneur like my dad. That's it. I'm good with that.

So you need to, you need to accept that. The first thing is you need to accept that you don't have to go

to college, that you're actually getting a head start on real life. So number one is you're kind of

getting a head start. You're not in that four years, which is often a babysitting.

It's often like a placemat for your life. You don't know what you're going to do so you go to

college and go into debt. So you are getting a head start on real life. Number two is this is a great

time to find your proficiency. What's that? That's your passion and your strength. Okay, it's a merger of the two.

I'm passionate about golf. It doesn't mean I can make a living doing it. Doesn't mean it's a good

idea for a business. So your proficiency. This is your passion. This is something that you,

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