As I’ve mentioned on here before, since acheiving my goal of graduating from college, I’ve felt somewhat aimless. Annie and I moved to Ellensburg for awhile, which helped, because it gave me the immediate goal of getting out of Ellensburg. Then once we got back to Portland, it was finding a job and moving into our own place. With those accomplished, basically I’ve just been living day-to-day. That was a nice switch for awhile, but lately I’ve been feeling like I was just treading water.
So I started asking myself what my goals for the future were. And when I sat down and seriously thought about where I wanted to be 10 years from now, there was only one real answer that suited me. I didn’t want to be working for anyone else. I wanted to be working with Steve and Miles, making money doing the things that we do in our spare time. Basically, I wanted to make fojar my full-time job.
Now that I had a goal again, I felt better. I had something to aim towards. However, I would never be able to acheive this goal unless I stopped waiting for things to happen for me, and start working to make them happen.
The intervening steps between my realization and Steve, Miles and I starting a business are kind of boring to anyone but us. There were a lot of phone calls, a ton of cautionary conversations, many reassurances and commitments, and a few actual business meetings.
But the end result is that the three of us have agreed to each do what it takes to make Studio Fojar a reality. Between the three of us, we have enough talent and experience working on internet projects to be a serious competitor in the web development market.
I feel good about this. The three of us have started many projects together, and have learned a lot from working with one another. But we’ve never made this strong a commitment to one another before, and it’s definitely making a difference.
Studio Fojar isn’t going to happen overnight. But it is happening. Keep an eye on the website as we grow and develop!
Edit 10/26/2005: As it turns out, Studio Fojar didn’t happen at all - and the domain is no longer under our control.
I'm a 30-year-old 
I know it sounds cheesey, but, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Unfortunately, you can have that journey planned and ready to go but that first step is the most difficult. Its like the stuff I’ve dealt with in the new student programs I’ve worked for. How do you teach something that you really only can learn from your own experience? No matter how many tired cliches you hear its ultimately up to you.
Its good to hear that you have found what makes you happy and you know what you want to do. That’s Step 1. Now to find that elusive Step 2: ??? then Step 3: Profit!!
Its really all part of growing up, or maturing I guess. Before we’ve always had the decisions made for us or given choices of which we could choose the path. Now we have to do both and more importantly, go out and find what there is out there and then figure out whether to pursue it or not. We create our own destiny and its up to us to not only dream it up, but to do the legwork to make sure it happens. I sure found that out. Of course, it also helps to have people cheering you on from the sidelines.
April 22nd, 2003 at 10:40 am