The South End is pretty much the Petri Dish of Entrepreneurial Experimentation.\u00a0 You got folks like myself who think employment is a capitalist conspiracy and a semi-voluntary gulag, you\u2019ll get every mutation, hybridization, and variant on self-employment, from mail order scams to drug dealing, from con-artists to glass artists.\u00a0\u00a0 Work, in the immortal words of our idol Maynard G. Krebs, is a four letter word used basically as an interrogatory.\u00a0 If we\u2019d been looking for JOBS, we sure wouldn\u2019t have moved to the tail end of an island that\u2019s zoned 99% residential.<\/p>\n
Still, a person has to pay the rent, a person has to eat, a person has to buy gas just to get back home.\u00a0 So we have to live by our wits.\u00a0 I know, trust me, I know! how disadvantaged that makes us.\u00a0 But like a good scientist will tell you — even failed experiments are worthwhile.\u00a0 It sets a Dead End sign up for the next grant writer.\u00a0 There are lessons to be learned from us!<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve tried most everything.\u00a0 Boat building, puppy pampering, organic nettle supplement sales, expresso shops that open at noon, art galleries that rarely open at all, specialty plant sales, llama ranching and ostrich herding, ziplines over the Tyee trout pond, outdoor movies back in the swamps, quail factories next door to me, mushroom starts in rotting alder, free range clam beds, ferret kennels, stained glass repair, website design, chainsaw sharpening, kayak rentals, Cajun catering, moonshine merlot distilling, pond engineering.\u00a0 Just to scratch the surface\u2026..<\/p>\n
In the end we work as hard as all immigrants.\u00a0 We escaped the Time Clock and the supervisors only to enslave ourselves to the new overlord — us.\u00a0 The missus sez if you worked a \u2018real\u2019 job, you\u2019d work half as much and make twice the money.\u00a0 Even if she does have a point, she misses the real one, the crux of it, the kernel of eternal truth, the wisdom behind our apparent folly.\u00a0 We don\u2019t think of it as work.\u00a0 And if the point needed proving \u2026.. neither does the IRS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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