When not having enough time is actually fun
There’s a huge difference between trying to live life around the edges of an unsatisfying job and trying to live it while creating four different careers simultaneously without spending any money. There are still only 24 hours in the day and there are still things on my to-do list from a month ago that haven’t happened yet. But I’m happy. I still have pressure, I still have money worries, and things still fail and I still make mistakes. The difference is that everything I do now is designed to contribute to a unified goal; something that is supposed to happen in corporate America but I was never privileged to witness.
My brilliant idea has been downgraded to a really good idea, due to my inability to be in six places at once. However, I believe I’ll be ready to start marketing it directly next week. The big reveal: I’m going to offer the service of baking bread directly in the kitchen of houses on the market that have been there a little too long. Primarily open houses in empty houses that have begun to project the aura of being vacant. Nothing beats the smell of fresh baking yeast bread.I won’t be out any serious money if it doesn’t work or is slow to catch on. The side benefits are that if it does work, houses should start selling better in my neighborhood and I’ll have lots of bread to donate to nearby shelters – everybody wins! The joy of this isn’t that I’m going to make a fortune, I already know I won’t, but that I can try it, learn interesting things along the way, and meet interesting people. What fun!
My article composition for blogging is improving (gradually) and I’m starting to find the information sources that are the most helpful to me so I’m not scanning quite so much raw material. I’ve yet to update my photography site, but I’m hoping to dive in there today so that I can start prepping it for offering things for sale. And because sometimes you just have to make time – tomorrow I’m going to take off and go beach glass hunting for the entire day. I’m justifying this as ‘work’ because once I’ve got a few thousand dollars extra lying around I’m going to set up my jewelry studio and start selling sea glass jewelry (on top of everything else.)
