a great time to be a college grad

Soon-to-be college grads: I know you're all getting excited to take those big fancy offers from internationally known companies with big client portfolios.

But hear me out. I want to present you with an alternative plan - just think about it for a second, and ask yourself if it's truly exciting to you to work in a cubicle farm for The Man, or if something about this other life might appeal to you. Just hear me out. (Psst, I might be the only person in your life to ever counsel you this way, so you should listen, if for no other reason than the pure freakiness of it all.)

Start your own company.

Seriously.

You could be the next Google guys.

Why not?

Paul Graham has an article this month on why startups are no longer relying so heavily on venture capitalists:

The reason startups no longer depend so much on VCs is one that everyone in the startup business knows by now: it has gotten much cheaper to start a startup. There are four main reasons: Moore's law has made hardware cheap; open source has made software free; the web has made marketing and distribution free; and more powerful programming languages mean development teams can be smaller.

Now is your time to do the startup thing. Seriously. We'll probably never have another crazy tech bubble (thank $deity) so jump on this train now. Being a part of something like this will change your life, tell you who you are, and make your later adventures all the sweeter.