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Guys, I'm here for some advice from anyone who has been here before. I'm 21M, supposed to be going to 3rd year this September. In my second year though, I started selling things around school,( in hostels) , got some money, re-invested, expanded. I honestly didn't need the money that much, I derived happiness in the selling process, that's why I kept on expanding... Making losses, profits, not keeping up. Before time I sold almost everything, I was the go-to-guy, this is when I realised I didn't want to do the course I was doing(IT) I wanted entrepreneurship. But it was too late, plus my parents are boomers, and siblings conservative, no one could agree to a deferrement.So, I decided to take matters into my own hands, during the 2.1 exams, I applied for a special exam with a forged illness report. This allowed me to use my school fees money in the business. By the time we started 2.2,I was over-ambitious, the school fees, the rent money, the helb, the profits, I was loaded... I decided to move out, I started doing business out of the school. Took some time to acclimatise, received some serious real world blows, actually went bankrupt. But since no one knew I was in business, money kept coming in, school fees, rent(I exaggerated), helb,.. Continued doing business, by the time 2.2 was coming to an end, I felt like school was pulling me back. But here's the problem, I'm Maasai, you know how big our families are, we are 11 at home, I'm the tenth born. (1 mom, I know). My dad took care of the first seven children well, but when it came to us, he left the responsibility to the 7. It's not like he went completely broke, he retired, but if you are Maasai, you know the Boomer mindset, children are an investment. So now one of my elder brothers pays my fees, rent, meals, etc... I feel guilty coz I'm not his responsibility, if it were dad, I could even drop out. Our 8th born bro dropped out, for him it was drugs, he was forced back to school after like 3 years but that has made our family very strict about education.Sometimes I try to sneak a topic about doing something other than school to my bro but he cuts me short on the spot, always insists that you should hold your degree in your hand before thinking of anything else, soft landing. But that's the thing, my mind is really not in school. He's like 13 years older than me, so it's had to give him my view. Okay now back to my point, by the end of 2.2 I felt like school was pulling me back, so during the exams, I applied for another special exam. So during the Supp time, 17 units of exams, that I have never read on, are waiting for me. That's not even the problem, I can pay people to do some, then do some myself. Here's the problem, when I was doing business outside.(I'm not mentioning where coz I don't want to leave a trail back to me). I discovered a serious gap in the real estate property management sector, and house hunting, being the rush guy that I am, I organised a team, some fourth years, and a graduate, launched a start-up. Actually running our pilot program rn, gone to events, met a couple of investors,got NOs, networked, blah blah blah. Next month however, my exams are starting, I have some cash... I could clear my school fees, do the exams, and come back September as a third year like nothing happened. Or I could pay to launch our application to the appstores and the iteration process. I'm stuck. Even my co-founders don't know what I should do, they are okay with whatever decision I'd make.And don't tell me I can do all of them at the same time, if you know Computer Science, and you've launched a start up before, you know how it's a chose-one scenario.TL;DR : I'm stuck between paying my fees to do my exams and proceed to 3rd year, or pay for my startup and launch officially. Advice.
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