What The Hell I Think I'm Doing

Hi all! Welcome to my brand new, squeaky-clean blog. It's not likely to look at all familiar the next time you should peruse it's pages (well page, for the moment) but never fear - it will still be here, and hopefully better with each incarnation. So here I sit with countless ideas swimming in my head. Business ideas, strange solutions, artistic endeavors, ideas about the meaning of life...you know the usual stuff that creative types like myself think about every day. This creates a massive problem for me. I can't bear the thought of a boring, repetitive, predictable, 9-to-5 job (fate worse than death).

I am currently struggling to make my way in the world as a photographer - I mean, it works in theory right? Creative, lots of ideas...just a few too many things that I need to be consistent at. Booking studios, phone calls, bookkeeping, invoicing, placing print orders, shipping and receiving crap - ugh! Without structure, the business is failing miserably. Oh yeah - I can't sell worth a damn either. I can't afford to hire someone to do this stuff for me, so I thought about it for a while and decided that I had plenty of skills that other people didn't and the type of person I was looking for was probably just one of those people. So, I put out a Facebook feeler in the form of a status update that read:

Looking for someone who is awesome at sales/recruiting and is willing to swap their talents for my own. I am proficient in the areas of photography, design, websites, marketing, and general creative thinking.

 The same day, I got two responses from interested people. I'm meeting with one of them on Monday (I'll let you know how it goes). Anyway, so there's an idea that could be a solution to one of my own problems. The only reason it may actually work is because I made the action simple enough to implement immediately. If it's a bigger project (more fun to plan) I can forget all about implementing it. It'll never happen. The fun and excitement is over in a day or two and I'm already thinking about the great big thing.

I figure it's a bit of a waste to just let these ideas sit and rot in the dustiest corners of my cerebral filing system (or metaphorical pile of crumpled papers that have missed the trash can). So, I hope that somebody out in the big wide world of cyberspace can put them to good use. There are, after all, some benefits I could get out of this:

• I will feel a sense of purpose - like my ideas really are good for something
• I will hopefully be able to help someone
• If someone makes money off one of my ideas, they might feel like giving back in the form of a donation!
• I will get head-hunted by some Fortune 500 company and make six-figures doing what I love (girl can dream, can't she?)

So there we have it - the idea as it stands at the moment, though I'm sure that even the concept will evolve as we go along. If you need some help brainstorming, let me know!