I grew up in a family of successful small entrepreneurs and surrounded by their contacts and friends. I myself chose to get employed in IT and I've been like th

I grew up in a family of successful small entrepreneurs and surrounded by their contacts and friends. I myself chose to get employed in IT and I've been like that for 20 years. A couple of years back I was starting to get the feeling that I'm not all I could be, that maybe I should start my own business and make "real" money. I presented this idea to my father during a lunch with a few of his business partners. The overall sentiment was "Fuck no! The money you're making working 9 to 5? You'd be crazy to give that up for all the trouble a business brings." I was quite surprised, not even one of them supported the idea and most envied my life style. I could go into how success in business is a lot about who you know and it's quite far from a fair playing field but I don't think it necessary nor do I want to write a book here.