Generally speaking, there is a lack of important evidence for the opposite. When you go to find a job, you do it either because you don't know what to do and you follow what others are doing or because you need the money to live the life you want. Finding a job is a beginning for something better in life.
The type of work we do doesn't necessarily have to align with our perception, but in times of scarcity it is better if it does, because jobs become more uncertain. Money decreases and unemployment rates rise, especially among young and unskilled people. So here we have a back and forth. Economically it is somewhat crazy, but emotionally it helps a person understand what is missing from their job and often what is missing is solid goals that were left unused.
In many cases these goals involve a business that never started, a way of working that was never attempted to become a routine, meaning to be applied and the people who had them were consumed by equally valid concerns about covering immediate daily expenses. But the risk wasn't taken and the seasons that mark the harvest will not concern us. Gambling isn't good, but if you see that you need to take a risk in order to change your income for the better and make a reasonable decision around that idea, whatever it may be, then it's good to take the risk in my opinion.
This voluntary disruptive event is worth it if you are determined to build something beneficial that you have in mind, rather than having it come unexpectedly through a dismissal due to a generalized crisis or a random incident. Then how will you change your standard of living, if that was already the main issue before? On the contrary, you will go to the next job that may pay less or at least you will look for one in the prevailing job market. Every risk and decision should also take this into account: will it improve my standard of living and if so how. Put the numbers down and see if they work and if they do then proceed.
The entrepreneurial spirit of our time is so diversified across so many things and sectors, with various kinds of people and qualifications. We live in an era of high specialization that comes from our interests and markets change relatively so quickly that in the past entire economies would have sunk into the mud. Today these ideas and entrepreneurial approaches generate billions of money every year beyond expectations, expanding the market dramatically. The goal is now mythical.
Entrepreneurship has setbacks, but only in this way do you move forward in this field. The road will never be paved with rose petals. That is nonsense parents tell their children. I suggest instead that they remember that you cannot predict, but you can find stimuli. One more stimulus to attempt the biggest step for yourself and only for yourself. That is what they should tell their children. It may seem a bit selfish to some, but it doesn't matter. It is true.
