Start Something, or Get Good at Something

[ad#half-banner]
There are always two choices: start something, or get good at something that is already there. I opted for the latter. And I can’t say that I regret even for one second that I spent the past five years building myself up to the point where I can make a NYC living wage doing something that is ridiculously fun and, at times, easy. I mean, I even have an open invitation to come back and work at one of the biggest newspapers in the United States, at any time. Even though I was the one who quit. That’s pretty cool.

But, I also think it would be cool if I had already started something. I did, kinda, in high school. I think the sting of losing something that I started (which happened when I graduated) sort of turned me off to starting things. I would love to be designing things right now that I know people will buy. I would love to be able to hire friends to my non-profit. I would love to wake up and have important stuff to do, instead of wake up and figure out how to get to the point where I have important stuff to do when I wake up.

Perhaps this is all part of the angst of building something, but right now the biggest agitation of all is that these things are not yet fully built. I will build them (or go broke trying to do so, as I am currently doing), but the heartaches and headaches involved with such building make me think back, though not regretfully, to the time five years ago when I took that fork in the road.
[ad]

Source