Well, perhaps because some might be more interested in say digging in Egypt to undercover archaeological sites, or maybe they interested in being a doctor, or perhaps a lawyer, or maybe they would rather do research on how they can make machines think, or a million of other things which have not much to do with starting your own business, to start with anyway.
So will you now tell me why they should start a business instead?
Because it will take you years and years of effort just to get the advanced degree that will enable you to try many of these lines of work, [1] at which point you may discover that you don't especially like them.
I can tell you about this experience at great length if you really want. ;)
(Dabbling in medicine or law is particularly expensive, because... it's expensive. You have to go into massive debt, on top of your potentially massive college debt, before you figure out that medicine or law can be a really miserable line of work. At least I didn't do that -- my years of career trial-and-error were cash-flow positive, though I didn't exactly live like a prince on my grad-student and postdoc salaries...)
Meanwhile, you don't have to do years and years of academic hoop-jumping before learning whether or not you'd enjoy starting a business, or working at a startup. (Or working at a big company, for that matter.) You can learn a lot just by trying it. You don't even have to wait for graduation.
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[1] Beware: You may think that you can learn whether you'd enjoy (e.g.) archaeology by volunteering to help on a dig, or by being a grad student in archaeology. And that is a good idea. But enjoying life as a grad student or intern is not the same as enjoying a career in a given field. In many fields, professors spend most of their time raising money, managing people, playing political games, and writing papers and proposals, not digging holes, performing calculations, or building neat stuff in the lab.
why not?
Because its more work than getting a master's and also much higher risk.
Well, perhaps because some might be more interested in say digging in Egypt to undercover archaeological sites, or maybe they interested in being a doctor, or perhaps a lawyer, or maybe they would rather do research on how they can make machines think, or a million of other things which have not much to do with starting your own business, to start with anyway.
So will you now tell me why they should start a business instead?
Because it will take you years and years of effort just to get the advanced degree that will enable you to try many of these lines of work, [1] at which point you may discover that you don't especially like them.
I can tell you about this experience at great length if you really want. ;)
(Dabbling in medicine or law is particularly expensive, because... it's expensive. You have to go into massive debt, on top of your potentially massive college debt, before you figure out that medicine or law can be a really miserable line of work. At least I didn't do that -- my years of career trial-and-error were cash-flow positive, though I didn't exactly live like a prince on my grad-student and postdoc salaries...)
Meanwhile, you don't have to do years and years of academic hoop-jumping before learning whether or not you'd enjoy starting a business, or working at a startup. (Or working at a big company, for that matter.) You can learn a lot just by trying it. You don't even have to wait for graduation.
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[1] Beware: You may think that you can learn whether you'd enjoy (e.g.) archaeology by volunteering to help on a dig, or by being a grad student in archaeology. And that is a good idea. But enjoying life as a grad student or intern is not the same as enjoying a career in a given field. In many fields, professors spend most of their time raising money, managing people, playing political games, and writing papers and proposals, not digging holes, performing calculations, or building neat stuff in the lab.
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