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by sircastor 815 days ago
If you're young, and relatively untethered, right now is probably the best and easiest time to take a risk on something. The future will undoubtedly hold relationships, connection to your local community, ownership of property, maybe children or other family obligations, etc. You have more energy right now than you will have ever again. Which is all to say, it will (probably) only get harder to do this from here on out.

That said, Food service has famously thin margins. I don't know a lot about coffee, but I'm willing to bet that it is not the exception to that rule. You really have to have a deep passion for doing this, because the money will probably not be enough.

If you're super ambitious - why not both? Start a coffee company and start prototyping a coffee machine that does things the way you like. The Coffee machine market is massive, and ranges from ten bucks to thousands of dollars.

Congratulations on your degree, and on graduating without debt. Good luck. If you feel like sharing in the future, I think we'd love to know what you chose.

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Thank you! I will deeply consider this advice.