Young professionals are catapulting off the corporate ship that has characterized the working class for a couple hundred centuries into the cold dark waters of entrepreneurship, hoping to find paradise or at least freedom from the course they seem set for.

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Indeed, some envision a boom in entrepreneurship as would-be business owners quit their soul-crushing corporate jobs to go to work for themselves.

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