Dec19

the doing.

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oh, the joy of looking through the christmas catalog

asking santa and opening up

exactly what i’d hoped for on christmas morning

I was going to make my own candy!

 eat as much as I wanted

start selling it

make my fortune

I was just ten

the world was my oyster

 while it didn’t work out exactly as planned

i had a blast creating my incredible edibles

they didn’t taste great

a cross between sugar and rubber

forgot I needed an income

to buy more of the stuff to make the goo

similar to my ill-fated earlier business plans:

1.  my bakery plan when I got my easy bake oven

with no funding for more cake mixes

and it took a long time to bake a cake with a light bulb

2. my spider breeding in my garage plan

when no one wanted to buy them

after seeing lots of webs in the corners there

but I didn’t actually

 know how to breed spiders

3. my stamp collection plan

where I licked them to put them in my book

because they were pretty

and they immediately lost all value

4. my taking things from my big sister’s’ room to sell to my neighbors plan

except that my sister saw them for sale on the table in our driveway

 the stand quickly got shut down after my mom was alerted

and I got in trouble.

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all of this has not dampened my entrepreneurial spirit however.

perhaps

I have just not hit upon quite the right business model as of yet

and it was probably good that I got a job as a teacher.

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‘the gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.’ 

-james dean

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  11. This is hysterical Beth! Trying to bake something with a light bulb (I remember) and your spider breeding business! (I used to feed a spider in the corner of our front porch.) I love your spirit in never giving up. When you know, you know. 😊

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  16. I tried the proverbial lemonade stand once. And one summer collected wire coat hangers (sold back to the cleaners) and old newspapers (sold to scrap paper company). Oh, and pop bottles. Collected those and turned in for the deposits.

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