I tried to explain during onboarding that we were not providing public school teacher security and summers off with "tech industry" upside. It did not matter. Expectations were driven by friends and family narratives. Everyone borrowed like consumers, even dabbled in tech day trading and panicked at every industry downturn.
Entrepreneurs must have the operative networks to "front run and flip businesses" or be money savers with real wills to endure as an operational team. Sony failed first making ironing board covers. The team kept going together. I learned enough working for Bill Wynn and Mark Pincus. People not so lucky must read some business case history and biographies. Those are not long or hard reads. Otherwise people are infected with the wrong expectations.
Student debt is a giant depressing obstacle. I am considering registering a religion so "friars" can defer their student loans operating small scale operations together, rotating roles, cost accounting, scheduling, writing contracts for fulfillment and finding sound counsel advisors. Business formation must put process refinement, team building and network growing front and center. It has to be functional, information rich and mostly fun all by itself.
No waves of pens solve these problems deep within motivational structures and widely disparate comparisons between possible futures.