Are you brave enough to quit your job? Are you brave enough to quit your job at Twitter? Are you brave enough to quit your job at Twitter and start a business at 40? Here she is. Ginger, she post her story ” My Life is Just Starting at 40, and I’m Bringing the Heat.” It is a wonderful story to inspire you.
I’m in the best shape of my life at 40, and I hope I can inspire other women and men who think that they’ve missed the boat, that it’s too late to dream and become someone they’ve always wanted to be.
It will be never too late to dream and take action now.
And here I was faced with the biggest opportunity of my life: open a photography studio in New York City, a photographer who’s been working at his dream of shooting fashion for 25 years.
So I sold all of my Twitter stock options, and put my life savings toward this pipe dream because I believed in Jason’s talent and my business acumen, and in April we opened up a store in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and we made it into the perfect expression of us and what we’re about as people and artists: honesty, safety, love, creativity.
The reality is never easy to face but you have to be brave.
This process has not been easy, and I’ll tell you what: if you say you’re starting any sort of creative business start-up, the reaction of most people will be the following:
“Why would you open a photo studio? Every photographer I know is closing theirs.”
“You won’t make any money. You’ll be broke in 9 months.”
“You can’t make money from photography anymore.”
It’s funny how 20-something bros with shitty new apps and spreadsheets have VCs falling over themselves with funding, but if you’re a 40-year-old woman with 15 years of experience at the best technology companies in the world and say you’re starting a creative start-up, you’re thrown skepticism and unsolicited advice from almost all channels.
No matter what size/type business that you are running. What you need to do for success is to take action and believe in yourself.
The studio might fail, and maybe the critics will be right, but it’s presumptuous to think we can predict the future.
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