Let's stop pretending
I haven't posted here for a while because I've been updating (well such as it is) the blog where I admit I'm leaving my cushy, but not fulfilling software job and open a cafe. At first it was to keep "competition" from trolling information about what's happening, but it sort of just became habit. I'll be opening in the next few months, and I'm in a small town so everyone who wants to know what's happening probably does already. So away with the subterfuge, I'm outing myself. I'm a techie who wants to change careers and so I'm risking it all to open a business where I'll work three times the hours (okay well twice the hours I'm working now) for a third of the salary.
I suppose that makes me a bit of a "type" but hey no big deal.
I kind of feel like in the movie of my life I finished out reel one with the big switcharoo from being a barely makes his way hoodlum to a "respectable" computer guy. I did that for another twenty minutes (years, whatever) but something was always wrong. Yes I got to hang with people who are as geeky as me, I got to have the big house, I got to buy toys all the time, but something was just slightly off kilter.
So here I am beginning reel three where I struggle through the learning process of managing a large number of part time folks, and running a small business in a small town in sub-urban/but still kind of rural South Carolina.
And I haven't posted much in a while because between trying to get 60 hours in for the old software job, and working on the cafe, and learning everything I want to learn before I get open there hasn't been anything else. So if you have been wondering what I've been up to (and I doubt you have) that's it.
This weekend I built tables (pictures soon? probably.) and with a crew of friends we did a ton of small tasks to finish up the outside of the cafe which was mostly painted over mother's day weekend.
The back of the cafe which I see from my window as I type this is looking fantastic. The pride of ownership is really overwhelming. I can't wait to share the place with everyone when I get the doors open.
I suppose that makes me a bit of a "type" but hey no big deal.
I kind of feel like in the movie of my life I finished out reel one with the big switcharoo from being a barely makes his way hoodlum to a "respectable" computer guy. I did that for another twenty minutes (years, whatever) but something was always wrong. Yes I got to hang with people who are as geeky as me, I got to have the big house, I got to buy toys all the time, but something was just slightly off kilter.
So here I am beginning reel three where I struggle through the learning process of managing a large number of part time folks, and running a small business in a small town in sub-urban/but still kind of rural South Carolina.
And I haven't posted much in a while because between trying to get 60 hours in for the old software job, and working on the cafe, and learning everything I want to learn before I get open there hasn't been anything else. So if you have been wondering what I've been up to (and I doubt you have) that's it.
This weekend I built tables (pictures soon? probably.) and with a crew of friends we did a ton of small tasks to finish up the outside of the cafe which was mostly painted over mother's day weekend.
The back of the cafe which I see from my window as I type this is looking fantastic. The pride of ownership is really overwhelming. I can't wait to share the place with everyone when I get the doors open.