Starting my journey and how entrepreneurship chose meI just graduated in May. I have very little cash or assets to my name and I have my fair share of debt. The perfect situation to start a company? Hardly.
So why even attempt to start a business with circumstances stacking against my favor? Throughout my last two years at university, I was told that all of my external efforts should be focused on landing a job, maybe even starting a career. For most people, this is why they pursued a higher education: higher paying salaries, job security, stock options, and the works. What I came to realize was that I wasn't like most people-- the idea of being employ #1,326 just didn't appeal to me, regardless of the pay scale.
Who I Am:
I suppose some background information is in order. Hi, my name is Frank Pobutkiewicz and I attended Boston University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, cum laude, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, cum laude. I grew up on the beautiful Jersey Shore and currently live in Boston, in the same apartment I lived in my last year in school. In many ways, BU was the perfect fit for me: I wanted big, diversified, international, and opportunity. Luckily, I found all of that at my alma mater and in particular from an organization that I dedicated a majority of my effort towards building (in retrospect, probably more than my "job search"), Model United Nations, later to be renamed the International Affairs Association.
