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即将毕业的大四学子，你是去创业还是去环游世界？
每次我看 Discovery Travel & Living 节目或看 Lonely Planet 杂志，我都急切的想去环游世界。特别是当看了“你应该去体验的八种异域风情”这类文章后，这种愿望更加的强烈。我满腔热情的收拾好行囊，可是，我突然意识到：哦，不行，我还有个刚成立的小公司呢。
创业办公司需要你做出太多的牺牲。你必须绝对努力工作好几年。(每周工作100小时以上)。所有的努力工作都是为了换取希望中可能实现的巨大回报 —— 也许是一年后，也许五年后，也许没有也许。这个巨大回报理论上会使你经济上变得自主，这样你就可以环游世界(或考察一些外国有趣的地方，比如taking a stab at string theory)。但这有个大问题，如果你的付出没有得到回报呢？这完全有可能，因为绝大多数的公司几年后要么失败，要么半死不活。被收购、IPO、或 FU money 的少之又少，没有定数。
我想这究竟是去探索你渴望想去的地方还是创业办公司的两难境地是非常有趣的，特别是对于那些20多岁到30多岁的人来说。所有有经验的人都说这个年龄的年轻人是正该出去走走、环游世界的时候(或做一些疯狂的野外的事情)，因为你还没有建立家庭或其它需要负责任的事情，这些事情往往会成为一些行为活动的枷锁。但一个相同的说法是：你该在这个年龄去创业：你没有家庭的拖累，你可以全身心的投入到事业中，通过奋斗拼搏得到最终的回报。这样你就可以得到经济上的自由(更重要的得到更多时间上的自由)，你也就可以到你梦想地方去旅游了。
说老实话，对这个难题没有一个明确的答案，但作为我努力创业工作的见证，你可以判断出我属于哪一类人。也许，在将来某个风和日丽的日子，我会踏上异域风情70国的旅程。也许不会有这一天。
【英文原版】
Do a startup or travel around the world?
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Every time I watch Discovery Travel & Living on TV or read Lonely Planet magazine, I desperately long for travelling around the world. This feeling intensifies after reading posts such as 8 Exotic Destinations You Can Afford. I get all pumped up ready to pack my bags. But then I realize: Oh wait, I have a startup.
Startup requires a lot of sacrifices from you. You have to work extremely hard (think 100+ hours per week) for several years. All this hard work is justified in hope of an eventual big pay-off which may happen in a year, five years or may not happen ever. That big-payoff has potential to make you financially independent and then you can go travel the world (or explore other exotic interests such as taking a stab at string theory). But the big question is what if that eventual pay-off never happens? It is certainly a possibility because majority of businesses will either fail or will become self-sustaining for years to come. Acquisitions, IPOs and FU money is a rarity, not a norm.
I think the dilemma of exploring your passions v/s doing a startup is interesting especially for young founders who are in 20s or early 30s. Every sage professes that this is the right age to travel (or do crazy wild things) because you don’t yet have a family to support or other responsibilities which may chain you to a particular sedentary lifestyle. But an equally strong logic goes in favor of doing a startup: you don’t yet have a family to support, so you can fully dedicate yourself to a startup and increase chances of the eventual payoff. Then you have the financial freedom (hence and more importantly freedom of time) and to travel to exotic places you have always dreamed of.
I honestly don’t have a definite answer to this but as evident by working hard on my startup, you can see which camp I belong to. May be, one fine day in future, I will start on my own epic journey of 70 countries. Or, may be not.
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