Don't Quit Your Job (Yet)

Entrepreneurship and alternative, non-corporate careers have become the hot new trend among young professionals. Articles abound featuring 20- and 30-somethings quitting their jobs and starting companies or going to work for a friend's startup. Not that there aren't exceptions to what I'm about to say, but it needs to be said: The path to Black success is different from White success and this affects the way you should think about your career and quitting.

Let's start with a simple question: Do your clients or customers at your Corporate job look like you?

Mine don't.