All Work and No College: A Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Life

If you were to ask entrepreneur Steven Wolf, saving your money is a thing of the past—especially when it comes to that trusty college fund.

“Unless you’re going to be a rocket scientist, a lawyer or a doctor, college is probably a bad idea,” said the 27-year-old who graduated from . “There’s a surplus of college-educated people and no demand in the job market.”

Rather, as Wolf posits in his instructional book The Young Entrepreneur’s Guide to Life, the decision to obtain a higher education should be carefully considered instead of some childhood expectation.  

But that didn’t stop the former Poway resident from graduating with a communications degree from Cal State San Marcos.

“I didn’t need my degree to get a job,” Wolf said. “I got to take more classes that I actually enjoyed, and I took it more seriously because I was paying for it.”

After some rocky teen years that inspired his first book, The Rich Kid Syndrome, Wolf got sober at 16 and launched a clothing line. Wolf, who said he experimented with various drugs, has since explored different industries, from real estate to network marketing, but the entrepreneurial spirit started when he was still in elementary school.

“My brother and I used to sell lemonade on the corner, and baseball cards too,” he said of growing up in Bridlewood. “Everybody else had a lemonade stand, so we wanted to step it up and be a little more innovative.”

The Young Entrepreneur’s Guide to Life will be available in 2012 and is what Wolf calls a personal development book with “incredible information written from a collection of successful entrepreneurs.”