# opinions neede on career... **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 16, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/opinions-neede-on-career/196152 "2008-03-16T16:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![Bravada\_442](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bravada_442/32/5982_2.png) [@Bravada\_442](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bravada_442)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/opinions-neede-on-career/196152/12 "2008-03-17T20:25:15Z")
> [@Bored? Solution inside.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/bored-solution-inside/35498/4): > > Not to be the downer, but doesn’t some extremely high percentage of restaurants fail? Is it in Pittsburgh? You’re single though, correct? So maybe you can handle some risk better in that case. 75% of restaurants fail within the first 18 months, 85% within the first 5 years. The restaurant business is one that is very very difficult to sustain. I’m all for risks, but with numbers like that, unless you are going after some niche market that needs filled and isn’t currently, or you have some ridiculous location that just can’t lose (think Sheetz in Oakland, Mike and Tony’s in S. Side, etc…) then I would tend to lean against that risk. There just needs to be a hell of a lot more information regarding the setup for you to make that decision IMHO --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/opinions-neede-on-career/196152)._