Next endeavor!

Well, it's been a while since I posted, I do regret to say.  That last business venture hit a couple hurtles and is now on the back burner.  I have recenlty made a few phone calls to manufacturers in order to further the progress, but recently a new opportunity has come to light and my wife and I will be working closely on our next business venture.

I woke up at 4am this morning had 3 cups of coffee and am still working tonight after a full day of my real job in the small time slot between 8am and 5pm.  I've gotten in a good 8 hours on "new business venture" work today as well.

I found some podcasts related to the field of required research for this project and listened to them in the car on the 90-minute commute.  This was a great use of a large vacant time slot.

I've focused on some of the boring statistical data today (which, when you get into it is actually very fascinating), but I've also spent some time watching amuzing YouTube videos in the related field of research, which is entertaining, gives the mind a little break, but is still very enlightening and educational.

Back to it!  I must be realistic though and I will set my alarm for a little later tomorrow morning since this day was pretty packed.  Maybe 5am, and shoot for 5 hours "new business" work.

Enter: The Chicken Entrepreneur

A "Chicken Entrepreneur" is a term I recently came upon that describes my current endeavor. This is a person who would like to start working for themselves, but is just a little too chicken to quit their job and take the leap into uncertainty. I'd like to start this blog as a detailed account of my entrepreneurial attempt to create my own company during the wee hours of the night and in any spare moment I can snatch up.

I'm a 27-year old mechanical engineer with a wife and probably a young one within the not-so-distant future. So I will be juggling, for your entertainment and education:

1. Family life
2. Romance
3. Finding a house to settle down in
4. Eating, so I don't perish
5. A full-time job (a one-hour commute from my apartment)
6. And everything that goes along with starting a business
7. Oh yeah... and writing a blog.

FIRST TIP for the chicken entrepreneur:

DON'T START A BLOG!!

These are precious moments that I could be getting work done, but I'm going to try it so that I can document my progress and also attempt to give YOU a first hand account of what really goes on, and some tips from things I've learned along the way (usually the hard way).

My company and products will go nameless until I've reached a comfort level that I'm not yet at, but they relate to and support my childhood dream of being an inventor. As an engineer I'm pretty close to fulfilling that dream, but there's something lacking, some degree of independence that I don't have and will never have working for someone else. I work on consumer, medical, and military products for a small design firm in Massachusetts. But the projects are inherently not my own and that's what I'm looking to gain. That, and the financial and temporal independence that everyone wants these days, at least us "Millennials" that can't stay put for more than a few years and incessantly strive to improve our lives any way we can. Which means that no matter what, we always ask for and expect just a LITTLE bit more than we have.

So stay tuned and hopefully we'll all learn something through this!