Comments on: Passionate about…? http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/passionate-about/ Or, how I uprooted my life and moved to Spain to get my MBA in Spanish (and eat lots of jamon) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:10:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Erin http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/passionate-about/#comment-321 Erin Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:44:29 +0000 http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/?p=183#comment-321 I think in your old age, or maybe from your years of drinking, you may have forgotten about money trees, tooth fairies, fairy god mothers and all other mystical creatures that have venture capitalist potential! We will discuss this issue and your getting old in August (rumor has it I am turning 29 again around that time) over a beer and a vodka tonic. Love you - xoxoxoxo I think in your old age, or maybe from your years of drinking, you may have forgotten about money trees, tooth fairies, fairy god mothers and all other mystical creatures that have venture capitalist potential! We will discuss this issue and your getting old in August (rumor has it I am turning 29 again around that time) over a beer and a vodka tonic. Love you – xoxoxoxo

]]> By: crystalbrooke http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/passionate-about/#comment-320 crystalbrooke Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:11:15 +0000 http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/?p=183#comment-320 HA! Oh, man, too true... I HAVE always loved the beer... And? If I were in, say, Belgium or Germany, it would be WAY harder to stay off the beer, because it's all so delicious. The fact that wine is FAR more tempting than beer here makes it much easier to keep the calories in check. However, Madam Cheerleader: have you any thoughts about start-up capital?? I haven't done the b-plan yet, but I'm certain it would be easily $100k or so -- which, in the business world, is actually nothing, but considering I've just acquired $120k of business debt... Pfffff.... It's daunting to think about. Further: it's WAY harder to reach break-even in a shop than in a bar, but I'm pretty damn disinterested in owning a bar, unless it were a really nice, up-market, close at 11pm kind of bar... So I don't know. I'm still nursing the idea, of course, and obviously I'd LOVE it if you could do my logo!!! But basically, I just need to crunch the numbers, and figure out if there's even room in the Portland market for yet another beer outfit... In the meantime: how 'bout we get together for a beer soon?? How's August for you?? ;-) HA! Oh, man, too true… I HAVE always loved the beer… And? If I were in, say, Belgium or Germany, it would be WAY harder to stay off the beer, because it’s all so delicious. The fact that wine is FAR more tempting than beer here makes it much easier to keep the calories in check. However, Madam Cheerleader: have you any thoughts about start-up capital?? I haven’t done the b-plan yet, but I’m certain it would be easily $100k or so — which, in the business world, is actually nothing, but considering I’ve just acquired $120k of business debt… Pfffff…. It’s daunting to think about. Further: it’s WAY harder to reach break-even in a shop than in a bar, but I’m pretty damn disinterested in owning a bar, unless it were a really nice, up-market, close at 11pm kind of bar… So I don’t know. I’m still nursing the idea, of course, and obviously I’d LOVE it if you could do my logo!!! But basically, I just need to crunch the numbers, and figure out if there’s even room in the Portland market for yet another beer outfit… In the meantime: how ’bout we get together for a beer soon?? How’s August for you?? ;-)

]]> By: Erin http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/passionate-about/#comment-319 Erin Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:58:54 +0000 http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/?p=183#comment-319 Let me straighten you out on one point here right off the bat -- you have ALWAYS loved beer. Your current obsession with weight loss has not diminished you love for beer, it has simply temporarily trumped the desire. I say go for the beer store. You have the desire, ample education, and knowledge to back you up. If you fail, at least you can say you tried. You have done an amazing job at your first career as a student. Now it is time to move on to your next career. Statistically I think we get 4 or 5...so you better get crackin. I promise, I will design you a fabulous logo, format your business plan and help you develop a marketing strategy. Just get your ass back to the states and get your wiggle workin (a Phyllis term). In return you supply me with beer, some business sense and a spelling/grammar lesson. Let me straighten you out on one point here right off the bat — you have ALWAYS loved beer. Your current obsession with weight loss has not diminished you love for beer, it has simply temporarily trumped the desire. I say go for the beer store. You have the desire, ample education, and knowledge to back you up. If you fail, at least you can say you tried. You have done an amazing job at your first career as a student. Now it is time to move on to your next career. Statistically I think we get 4 or 5…so you better get crackin.
I promise, I will design you a fabulous logo, format your business plan and help you develop a marketing strategy. Just get your ass back to the states and get your wiggle workin (a Phyllis term). In return you supply me with beer, some business sense and a spelling/grammar lesson.

]]> By: crystalbrooke http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/passionate-about/#comment-318 crystalbrooke Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:10:14 +0000 http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/?p=183#comment-318 Yeah, it's this passion/paycheck dichotomy that's killing me -- seems like I can have one or the other, but maybe not both; at least, not right now... But sometimes I wonder if the deeper philosophical debate even matters, given just how bad the market is right now -- like, I'll just have to take ANYTHING that will pay me to show up every day. That is SO not what I signed up for with this fancypants degree... Ugh. Yeah, it’s this passion/paycheck dichotomy that’s killing me — seems like I can have one or the other, but maybe not both; at least, not right now… But sometimes I wonder if the deeper philosophical debate even matters, given just how bad the market is right now — like, I’ll just have to take ANYTHING that will pay me to show up every day. That is SO not what I signed up for with this fancypants degree… Ugh.

]]> By: Danny J http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/passionate-about/#comment-317 Danny J Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:56:34 +0000 http://sinlogica.wordpress.com/?p=183#comment-317 I totally understand what you're saying about knowing what you're passionate about. I'm often in the same boat except, as you've often keenly pointed out, they're often things I like to do RIGHT NOW and seem great RIGHT NOW and seem like they make sense given xyz experience I have RIGHT NOW. So I long to find the answer/job/life choice that will just make me happy RIGHT NOW and forever. I've no significant regrets about some of my choices. The few I have, looking back, have allowed me to be here in Barce-effin-lona and gotten to know you and a collective of some of the most amazing friends a person can ever hope to have. But this great degree and the choices that have led us here don't directly pay the bills, right? It will be the result of those that will. So do we MAKE the result or just merely ACCEPT the result? Result in this case meaning the Big J-O-B. As in, do we accept job X at abc company? Or wait, eat Ramen, hustle, and earn the dream job? The truth is, Crystal, thinking about this very topic bums me out because, like you, I like to do so many things and have tons of huge effing ideas, but I often end up doubting any of those things when protracted over several years day-in and day-out will make me happy... or easily pay the bills. I’m not going back to IT, a hobby-turned-job run amok, ever, but it would be so easy… or so I think. Bartender! Alcoholic coping mechanism, please! And make it a double! I totally understand what you’re saying about knowing what you’re passionate about. I’m often in the same boat except, as you’ve often keenly pointed out, they’re often things I like to do RIGHT NOW and seem great RIGHT NOW and seem like they make sense given xyz experience I have RIGHT NOW. So I long to find the answer/job/life choice that will just make me happy RIGHT NOW and forever. I’ve no significant regrets about some of my choices. The few I have, looking back, have allowed me to be here in Barce-effin-lona and gotten to know you and a collective of some of the most amazing friends a person can ever hope to have.

But this great degree and the choices that have led us here don’t directly pay the bills, right? It will be the result of those that will. So do we MAKE the result or just merely ACCEPT the result? Result in this case meaning the Big J-O-B. As in, do we accept job X at abc company? Or wait, eat Ramen, hustle, and earn the dream job?

The truth is, Crystal, thinking about this very topic bums me out because, like you, I like to do so many things and have tons of huge effing ideas, but I often end up doubting any of those things when protracted over several years day-in and day-out will make me happy… or easily pay the bills. I’m not going back to IT, a hobby-turned-job run amok, ever, but it would be so easy… or so I think.

Bartender! Alcoholic coping mechanism, please! And make it a double!

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