No reason for the issue to be either/or. Fine, a new graduate needs real-world organized domain-exposure experience, and a paycheck. Day job. I'd bet nearly al

No reason for the issue to be either/or. Fine, a new graduate needs real-world organized domain-exposure experience, and a paycheck. Day job. I'd bet nearly all of the young'uns in question are NOT spending much of their remaining waking hours building something of their own on their own. Yes, the world doesn't need another to-do list, but there's a zillion other small projects anyone can do with overhead expenses approaching $0. Even if they're doing just a to-do list, then they're doing SOMETHING on their own, learning about building & polishing & documenting & packaging & distributing & advertising & selling & etc., creating a portfolio of personal experiences. So what if it's unoriginal? follow the unoriginal path until it ends, then be somewhere the path is heading and be the first one there with something original. Programming and entrepreneurship are like being a musician: if you don't do it at every opportunity, if it's not your preferred time-filling activity, if it's not darn near oozing out your pores, you're not one. I'm realizing people don't understand "I want": it's not a vapid expression of desire when pressed for an answer to "what do you want?", it's something you crave & pursue without prompting by others. The author noted that 75% of those saying "I want to be an entrepreneur" were doing absolutely nothing to make it happen, ergo they don't want it.