On the verge of insanity
My life has always been full of cycles. One of the most intriguing of these cycles is the fact that roughly every 12 - 18 months I feel an overwhelming need to uproot my life and do something different. In the past, these needs have been unexplainable, but I would definitely take some sort of giant step in order to make myself feel a little better. I know that that old feeling feels like, and today I am experiencing something completely different.
I have been dating Natters for 2 months on the 13th of March. We have the benefit of being wonderful friends before we got together and therefore we know each other on a much different level than if I had just started dating someone. We can hang out for days and never bore of the company or the conversation. However, nothing in our relationship is following a proven path of events. Then again, when I've followed the "see each other, dating, seriously dating, talking about moving in together, blah blah blah" sequence of events things seem to fail miserably. So, instead we have decided to go from being friends who haven't seen each other in a year, to completely in love, and finally living together all in the span of a couple of months. It may not make sense to most people, but the only ones that matter are us and it seems to be the perfect path to be taking.
I've been struggling to find a job out on Vancouver Island for the last few months. Because she has a wonderful, but very young daughter we have decided that we will stay with her parents for a little while so we have the benefits of in-house babysitting. The downside of this is that the city they live near is only about 30000 people and isn't offering the greatest job market for someone like myself. There are some other options available, but for the time being this will be where we decide to stay. The question is, what to do about that little job problem?
The answer? Create my own job.
I am on the verge of making the decision to go on my own and pursue an idea that has hovered in my head for a while. In fact, I'm waiting to hear back from some suppliers this week so I can overwhelm myself just a little bit more. The beauty of it is that Natters seems to be quite excited about the idea as well, and is looking after getting me information on shop location, surveying the market for me and helping with other initial planning things. For my own personal reasons I still don't want to pass this idea on to a lot of people, and therefore it won't be discussed here either. I will note one thing... and that is that I think I can do this better than most other people who are currently in the market. The other thing is that it is a completely new venture for me as I have almost no experience with this market, other than my background of finance, accounting, computer programming and my great ability with people.
I will note that I'm freaking out about the idea. It's been a 2 day freak-out so far, and I have a feeling it will last for a few more days. Let's look at this for a second. I am thinking about moving to a brand new city, in another province, with a fairly new girlfriend (but my best friend), and instead of having a job I will be going on my own to make my own company successful. Essentially, that is my whole life that I am altering. How can I not freak out. But, under all of it is a level of excitement that is almost impossible to contain. I can't stop the ideas running through my brain, and the best that I can do is writing things down and researching them when I get a chance. I think I collected some 75 bookmarks yesterday on suppliers, financial assistance providers, stats for the areas and so on. I can hardly sort through things right now, but I love it. Hopefully later today I'll have an idea on lease prices for a place and maybe one or two suppliers will have gotten back to me with some more information that I need.
In the end, I'm pretty sure I'll succeed with this venture. The idea is something that is proven to be successful already, but I'm just expanding on it and making it better. Many other people have taken their ideas and run with them even though they had absolutely no experience with the whole start-up process, so why can't I? I have the education, the motivation and the ability to put in the time that's needed. I'm just going to make things better than the competition, which is always a good thing. If things do work out, then I'll expand on the idea further in the future as I already have the ideas for that. But, one stage at a time.
In other news, I think my hand is broken. Not really, but it hurts like it is. Funny thing is that I don't know how it happened. Also, why are there little bugs running around our house? I mean, it's cold outside, so where did they come from? And how come they swim underwater in the toilet so well? They certainly seem to adapt well to their environment.
I think I'll go to my actual job now.
I have been dating Natters for 2 months on the 13th of March. We have the benefit of being wonderful friends before we got together and therefore we know each other on a much different level than if I had just started dating someone. We can hang out for days and never bore of the company or the conversation. However, nothing in our relationship is following a proven path of events. Then again, when I've followed the "see each other, dating, seriously dating, talking about moving in together, blah blah blah" sequence of events things seem to fail miserably. So, instead we have decided to go from being friends who haven't seen each other in a year, to completely in love, and finally living together all in the span of a couple of months. It may not make sense to most people, but the only ones that matter are us and it seems to be the perfect path to be taking.
I've been struggling to find a job out on Vancouver Island for the last few months. Because she has a wonderful, but very young daughter we have decided that we will stay with her parents for a little while so we have the benefits of in-house babysitting. The downside of this is that the city they live near is only about 30000 people and isn't offering the greatest job market for someone like myself. There are some other options available, but for the time being this will be where we decide to stay. The question is, what to do about that little job problem?
The answer? Create my own job.
I am on the verge of making the decision to go on my own and pursue an idea that has hovered in my head for a while. In fact, I'm waiting to hear back from some suppliers this week so I can overwhelm myself just a little bit more. The beauty of it is that Natters seems to be quite excited about the idea as well, and is looking after getting me information on shop location, surveying the market for me and helping with other initial planning things. For my own personal reasons I still don't want to pass this idea on to a lot of people, and therefore it won't be discussed here either. I will note one thing... and that is that I think I can do this better than most other people who are currently in the market. The other thing is that it is a completely new venture for me as I have almost no experience with this market, other than my background of finance, accounting, computer programming and my great ability with people.
I will note that I'm freaking out about the idea. It's been a 2 day freak-out so far, and I have a feeling it will last for a few more days. Let's look at this for a second. I am thinking about moving to a brand new city, in another province, with a fairly new girlfriend (but my best friend), and instead of having a job I will be going on my own to make my own company successful. Essentially, that is my whole life that I am altering. How can I not freak out. But, under all of it is a level of excitement that is almost impossible to contain. I can't stop the ideas running through my brain, and the best that I can do is writing things down and researching them when I get a chance. I think I collected some 75 bookmarks yesterday on suppliers, financial assistance providers, stats for the areas and so on. I can hardly sort through things right now, but I love it. Hopefully later today I'll have an idea on lease prices for a place and maybe one or two suppliers will have gotten back to me with some more information that I need.
In the end, I'm pretty sure I'll succeed with this venture. The idea is something that is proven to be successful already, but I'm just expanding on it and making it better. Many other people have taken their ideas and run with them even though they had absolutely no experience with the whole start-up process, so why can't I? I have the education, the motivation and the ability to put in the time that's needed. I'm just going to make things better than the competition, which is always a good thing. If things do work out, then I'll expand on the idea further in the future as I already have the ideas for that. But, one stage at a time.
In other news, I think my hand is broken. Not really, but it hurts like it is. Funny thing is that I don't know how it happened. Also, why are there little bugs running around our house? I mean, it's cold outside, so where did they come from? And how come they swim underwater in the toilet so well? They certainly seem to adapt well to their environment.
I think I'll go to my actual job now.
posted by Kelly at 11:37 AM
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