After college, is it better to work in your family business or be employed in multinational company?

Question

After college, is it better to work in your family business or be employed in multinational company?

Answer 1

Uh, to me that is a really hard choice.

It hard to turn down a family business... if it's a good pay and you know some day you would be taking over it... uh...  

Answer 2

It depends on your marketability.  If you can command a 120K a year job on the open market, and the family can only pay 40K, It's a no-brainer.

On the other hand, if the family can pay as well, or better than you could get elsewhere, it is much better being with the family.

The exception to this, is if the family business is not very stable.  If the business has a chance to fail, it is better not to have the whole family's eggs in one basket.

Answer 3

It really depends on the career you want to have, what you want to be dong each day, what your family business is, what kind of job you expect to have at a multinational company and whether your job there could be outsourced or not.  

Answer 4

Depends on your family business, whether you like it or not, and what you would do there...

In my case the family business, is a horse farm,I went to college to manage it, and eventually take it over...

But it can wait, I wanted to do something on my own first....