My First Businesses

So my first business was buying and selling collectible toys. I got a sales tax license from the state of Pennsylvania and I had a little booth inside a place called the old toy company, and you had to work a day plus pay rent every month. I look back at some of the fixtures and I wish I had a few of the toys because they’re worth quite a fortune. But that’s my first business.

I did that for a few years and then went from a booth to a display case and then just closed up shop for whatever reason. And then in the late 90s, I was starting to get checks for advertising for websites. So I ended up forming basically my own little music marketing machine, where I was an outlet with a network of music, fan websites, some of which I didn’t even know. And I brought him money that way, which was good.

When I lived in New York City it was supplemental income, ad revenue and then when I moved to Nashville in 2007 Just I opened up my own technology thing I still worked a full time job I fix computers did websites music marketing, until it was enough or I’m sorry, online, small business online marketing. You spot new media back in the day. Until it was enough that I could quit my job what we affectionately called scanning cans where I collected retail data by scanning UPC codes and grocery stores.

And I could just do it full time. I’ve worked for free for summer to learn the trade and then I was billable and from there I just went into business for myself. Which was good i i enjoyed the freedom that it afforded me.

I don’t know that could ever go back and be somebody’s employee. I think part of me just doesn’t like control. And I think that’s the thing that’s recurrent, both with religion and with vocation that I just don’t like being controlled or even thinking that I’m being controlled by anyone or anything or set of rules.