LOL - the 4P's

takes me back to year 9 (8th grade?) business studies LOL.. wow.. CP and I used to sit there and talk for the whole set of lessons...........

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LOL Frogga! Pretty funny how a little basic business can be the key to it all.

I wish schools would teach young teens skills in building your own business, instead of how to be an employee. We need more people creating jobs, as it is there is not enough jobs to go around.

We have a scheme called young enterprise here where that happense - we are given loans or taught how to get people to invest and then have a year to make our business work. It is generally only small things - like making t-shirts, painting mugs, doing small jobs/ services but it works really well. A lot of my friends have done it. However, I decided against it because of the level of help I would have needed with it and not being able to pull my weight in a team where so much of it is based on product!

Even business studies though focused on the 4Ps, the importance of positive framing in advertising, supply chains, the balance between supply and demand, market research etc.

true though - entrepeneur ship is very important in both the UK and US as the manufacturing industry leaves both our countries... especially as I am really not sure (personally) whether the UK can survive becoming only a tertiarly and quaternary service provider ESPECIALLY once the UK has overhauled it's approach to "green energy" (stopping planes etc etc)...

Oh well!!

Frogga xxxxx (who doesn't remember much from business studies).

Hi Allen,
Your post was beautiful honesty and self reflection. As a parent I feel your pain! As a fellow go getter with limitations I can tell you what I did. For a long time I did hide behind my RSD. Yes it was real, it was severe, it was debilitating.........and it kept me safe from a whole lot of things. I didn't take chances or try anything new. My day was consumed by medical stuff and anxiety. It took a lot of the self reflection that you are doing. One day I realized that I was in pain when I was in my apartment resting................ I would be in pain if I took a class.................. I knew a full load would be a set up so I took one. I got my degree one class a time. I was still in pain but didn't that cap and gown give me a lift!

From there I resolved to find a way to do a little bit of everything I love. I loved the social work field but can't work a part time job. I volunteered 1 day a week with hospice. I was in pain but at the end of the day I had something to hold on to. It was just one day but it got me through the week. I sell antiques from home now. What I really want to do is clean out estates and work the open antiques markets. I can't do that but I have my pice of the dream. Find little corners of your old cakes to nibble on. You will hurt either way. You are still in there and your soul needs to be fed. Good luck!!!!!!!!!!