[jhynesrockmtn]

I worked my way through high school and college in restaurants. If you have not been a busboy, dishwasher, cook, waiter and bartender yet go do that for someone else for a year or two and then report back. The people I worked with were some of the nicest but most screwed up folks I've ever met. Brilliant people with advanced degrees slinging burgers, steaks and salads because their personal lives were too screwed up to hold a 9-5 job. Some of them loved it, but many were there as a last resort.

A buddy I worked a corporate gig with took a bunch of his money from stock options and investors money and put a concept together in London that was doing great for a year or two. When he tried to replicate and expand the whole thing cratered. The one location that did well didn't translate 2 tube stops away. He was smart, in his late 30's, had a ton of business experience, was a CPA, researched the thing to the 9's and had great initial success. He's back to doing CFO stuff now.

It's a tough life, live it first and then decide.