{"id":830,"date":"2017-03-14T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirkwood.certapro.com\/?post_type=community&#038;p=830"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T20:24:24","slug":"young-entrepreneurs-bypass-corporate-rat-race","status":"publish","type":"community","link":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/community\/young-entrepreneurs-bypass-corporate-rat-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Entrepreneurs Bypass Corporate Rat Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ehrlich owns and operates an <span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/stocks\/overview?symbol=EXPR&amp;lc=int_mb_1001\">Express<\/a><\/span> Oil Change franchise in Cedar Park, Texas, a suburb of Austin. He&#8217;s betting the business will weather the difficult economy, affording him and his family a prosperous future at a time when many recent college graduates are struggling to find jobs amid record-high levels of unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Still wet behind the ears, new entrants to the business world are facing a string of dead ends as they suit up to compete for slim pickings among entry-level corporate positions. Franchises offer another route&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-column-cohen-youngentrepreneurs-idUSTRE57J2XS20090820\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ehrlich owns and operates an Express Oil Change franchise in Cedar Park, Texas, a suburb of Austin. He&#8217;s betting the business will weather the difficult economy, affording him and his family a prosperous future at a time when many recent college graduates are struggling to find jobs amid record-high levels of unemployment. Still wet behind<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/community\/young-entrepreneurs-bypass-corporate-rat-race\/\">Read the full article <em class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","community","type-community","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/community\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/community"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/community"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/community\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/kirkwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}