Anonymous 319207
My dad wants me to start a food business with him. I'm a NEET, never been employed, and since I plan to get into the food industry in some way I've brought up the idea myself before, but it's always seemed like something out of my depth. As tempting as it is I think it's ultimately a bad idea. I seem to be putting far more thought than my dad is into the danger of ending up in my 30s saddled by the debt of a failed business in my 20s. He says all these things like "we won't fail if we plan ahead properly and make sure to be clever about it" and how he had a small company twenty years ago selling photographs to publishers, as if that's anything to do with the skills required to run a food company. He brushes off the idea of what we'll do if the business fails with "we just have to not fail in the first place".
It's annoying how I'm the one in the position of shutting down my 50 year old father's crazy overly-optimistic ideas, isn't that the opposite of how it usually goes?
