A friend of mine and fellow JessicaMah.com reader sent me a question the other day – he and pretty much most adults I sit down for coffee with always come to asking me about my post college plans. What do I plan on doing once I’m out of college? Of course, I answer by saying that I’d like to continue being an entrepreneur. Well, I’m sort of doing it already and I know it’s what drives me.

Then there’s the question of what I plan to do after Google acquires my company for a bagillion dollars? Well, even now… I don’t need to work if I didn’t want to. I could just sit on my ass all day and not care about the world, but why would I want to do that? I’m an entrepreneur, and for me, it’s about the drive. There’s just an amazing feeling that goes along with seeing nothing turn into something. Seeing a company exit achieves a few tiny things for me:

1) It proves to my peers, my partners, and my parents that I’m capable of doing business. (aka, doing something meaningful with my life)

2) It satisfies my over enlarged ego.

3) My children will have trust funds waiting for them. (no, I don’t believe in that stuff. Let those kids earn their keep)

And once I have all of the above satisfied, I’ll probably want more. It’s just human nature for me at least to have a goal in mind. If I don’t have a goal and a reach goal to reach, there’s no point in living. There’s so much personal variation to this. For many, multi million dollar exits may lead an entrepreneur to taking time off and just relaxing on the beach. There’s absolutely no problem with that. Unlike others, I don’t think that type of mentality makes someone a *fake* entrepreneur. They simply have different life goals, and what suits them should be accepted.

Jessica Mah is a 17 year old entrepreneur, blogger, and sophomore in college. She’s currently the founder of a startup, managing editor at Startupism.com, and Jessicamah.com. In her free time, she enjoys the prospect of being an underage angel investor.