[larrys]

See now everyone (investors, friends, perhaps even a spouse) is going to egg you on because they won't have to clean up the mess that might result from the amount of stress you are putting yourself under.

(I say "might" because I don't know enough about the specifics of your situation.)

But I do know that for sure anyone who eggs you on will have no detriment to the choices that you have made to get ahead.

I do understand how you have to do this because everyone else is taking that route.

Back in the day I never even tried pot. Or cigarettes. And everyone else was doing it back then. But then again it wasn't used to enhance performance or get ahead. So I can't honestly say what I would have done if faced with a peer group that was using performance enhancing drugs that I had to compete with.