Our younger daughter, Erin, got a job teaching PE and Health in Fort Pierce, FL. For the first time, both of our daughters are gainfully employed and succeeding on their own. Now we can relax our parenting and enjoy the fruits of our labors. My business of producing and directing communication videos for the automotive industry, especially Chrysler, is slow, but it has always been cyclical.
September/October, 2008
The realization that my business is not in a slump, but is, at best, in a coma, fully sinks in. The auto companies, especially Chrysler, aren't producing many videos for their employees and dealers. "You're fired." can be done by email. The odds of me making any money over the winter seem close to zero. Desperation leads us to look elsewhere for inspiration about what to do in faced with seemingly insurmountable difficulties. The best place for that kind of information is, of course, the movies. When the infamous El Guapo threatened the good people of Santa Poco, "The Three Amigos" asked them what it was that they were good at. They answered, "We can sew!" They applied their skills to the problem and the town was saved. It seemed like a better approach for us than Dirty Harry's solution, "Feel lucky, punk?"
For us, the answer to the question was, "We can fix houses." We looked around where we live in Michigan and couldn't find anything that we could afford that seemed like it would sell when we finished fixing it up. We thought of looking where our daughters live, in order to have a base of operations. Laura lives in Massachusetts; Erin in Florida. Winter's coming. We love you, Laura, but I'm off to Fort Pierce.
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