Yeah, life's like that. I go from thing to thing. Temp jobs were
good for me in NJ. One temp job ended me up in a systems analyst
position and I asked for the max 'cause I didn't care about it.
I was doing courses to become a special ed teacher, middle
school and never cared about the job. But, it worked out.
$60000/yr for a few years, learned stocks, had fun. Ended up
ditching it and putting a house together in FL with like 12 ppl
in it, running a business for my brother so he can do animal
trapping and I'm living 5 miles north of the Everglades working
from home. Not even my dream.. I'm living someone else's dream.
But I'm usually living someone else's dream. My interest has
always been connecting with ppl online, encouraging creativity
and ppl finding their passion and pursuing it. The money thing
never made sense to me. I think we get lied to when we're young
about "do what you love and the money will follow" 'cause yea, I
think that's BS. It's as BS as the "get a diploma and your
problems are solved". Look how many PhD's just struggle to get a
book published? For some PhD's, that's ALL they can do with
their degrees. Give talks, promote themselves, write books. Eh.
One book that's helped is "What Color is your parachute?" - the
dude updates it every year. Teaches you about transferrable
skills and stuff and you get to know a little better what your
capabilities are in general so you can find at least SOME
"ok-ness" with whatever you're stuck doing to make cash. == Oh I
agree. I think the trend is fantastic and things like
Kickstarter and the like make it REALLY easy to generate enough
capital, if you can write it up convincingly. I mean, you can
make money at whatever you're good at. Like with me, I'm a data
nut. I love data, Excel, databases, tons of facts, just throw it
at me and I'll sort it out. Everything I ever did I'd find SOME
way to incorporate that in. But, I'm passionate about helping
people get out of their ruts in life, cause we're all stuck in
one somehow. Yet, what money in that? Public speaking? Eh.
Books? eh, not organized enough. So, instead of it being a money
maker, I just do it anyway. It's not that I _couldn't_ make $ at
it. I could make big $. I know the steps. I've studied it. I
could even start a cult/religion: I know the steps there too and
it's not hard and it's a way to make money. But the ethics of it
stop me, so I don't do it for money. == Best answer I have for
anything is: "I don't know". It's universal. Works for
everything. So, if I come across as if I'm trying to be a role
model or teach something, I'm really not. I'm more like a
doctor's case study, where they're like, "And here's the case of
patient [x] with these strange symptoms". So, I'm just sharing
and I appreciate the audience like emoticon ==
