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Missy Twohig wanted a piercing studio to act as a second home, a place where she and her customers would feel content and at ease.
The desire to create this relaxed atmosphere inspired Twohig, 29, to open her own studio, which she named Sacred Piercing.
‘You have this vision in your mind of the way you would like things to be, and the only way you can see if that’s possible is by trying,’ she said. ‘It took me a couple years to realize that, but here I am.’
And young people increasingly share these entrepreneurial ideas.
Twohig and Patrick Fisher, a Penn State-Behrend senior who helped Twohig develop the business plan for Sacred Piercing and will work in the studio, said it seems that many young people today are drawn to self-employment.
Fisher, 22, said his generation has seen parents struggle at work, with dissatisfaction and outsourced jobs. ‘We’re not willing to accept that,’ he said. ‘You see a lot of younger individuals going out and starting businesses.’
According to nationwide data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2005, there were 1.91 million self-employed people younger than age 34 in nonagricultural industries, an increase from 1.68 million in 2000.
Overall, the number of self-employed people also increased, from 9.21 million in 2000 to 9.51 million in 2005.
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