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August 16, 2006
Work Shmerk; Knit Schmit
I have an important announcement. Today is D-day over at the Hassle Castle. My travels are finally through. Jake - my ridiculous summertime cohort - is navigating his Budget truck somewhere on the horizon. I have no more distractions, and no more excuses. It is time to get to work. [Musical cue: "Get to work gong"]
So! Here's the plan! I am going to spend the next six or so weeks (this may change, depending on how things go, but let's just say six for the kids in the back) working 40 hours per on Sweet and Bitter: the bar. This will be my full-time job. In essence, I need to spend some serious toil figuring out if I want to do it. I know that I can do it, I just don't know that I want to do it.
Certainly, a fair amount of this ambivalence - if not all - can be chalked up to the whole, "I have no idea how to start a business" theme. It is rather daunting. But, you know, I've done harder. Certainly. And judging from the people I've met who own their own places, I am definitely smart enough to pull it off. I think my ponytail is smart enough to pull it off.
Yet, in an analogy I've shared with many of you, it's as if I've been given a ball of yarn and knitting needles and told to make a sweater...I know the basic concepts of knitting and good God, I certainly own a lot of sweaters. But alas. This does not a knitter, nor a sweater, make. Unless it's a really crappy sweater. Or a sweater vest.
I have until October to figure out how to knit or - at least - to get a lot more comfortable with trying my hand at it anyway. That's the plan. And I swear that regardless of what I decide: I'll totally stop using the knitting analogy.
Posted by Bree at August 16, 2006 08:22 AM