Teens Believe Owning a Business Provides Job Security A recent survey has teens choosing entrepreneurship over employment.
In a recent Junior Achievement survey, 41 percent of teensbelieve owning your own business provides greater job security thanworking for a company. And nearly three quarters of the teensindicated they would like to start their own business someday.
Teen enthusiasm for starting a business included an appreciationof marketplace rigors, too. Students seem aware of the challengesinvolved in starting a business, with only 11 percent saying suchan effort would be "very easy" or "easy," whilealmost half (49 percent) believed starting a business would be"somewhat challenging."
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