My Sunday

I didn’t sleep last night.  I had the choice between sleeping on a friend’s couch or staying up all night watching old bands try to rekindle their washed up careers with montage videos of people who seem to be worth more than them.

I chose to watch the montage videos.

This left me a lot of time to think.  First of all, does overlapping a song with videos from Live Earth, Nelson Mandela speeches, and the breaking of the Berlin Wall make you a philanthropist or self-righteous?  I dwelled on this issue for about an hour… that’s when the subject was expanded into another facet of imagination and guess-work.

There are people who are entrepreneurs and there are people who are unemployed.  I don’t think I have ever really been an entrepreneur… have I freelanced?  Yes.  Been an entrepreneur?  No.  I’ve been a writer.  I am a writer (sometimes contrary to popular belief).  I have an unemployed friend who has recently thought about being an entrepreneur – but based on his educational background (he went to the same high school, but not to college), I don’t think he has what it takes.

I feel that the lack of business education early on in peoples’ educational careers is appalling.  Business 101 should be a basic requirement.  The more I get into engineering, the more things break down into business.  The more you go into MOST majors, the more THEY break down into business.  If you don’t attend college, the business background could infinitely help people start a business.  I think the main issue is that people don’t know how a business works… and that is definitely one thing that held me back from taking my freelance work any farther – fear of crossing uncharted territory.

So without going too in depth, you’re finding a lot of people like my friend – entrepreneur extraordinaire… working for himself, by himself, and selling his product to nobody.

Maybe he should make a montage.