Why I'm Not a Macaroni and Cheese Entrepreneur

I'm going to tell you why I'm not an entrepreneur. I have an example, okay? Since I love macaroni and cheese, but only the recipe in the old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, I had an idea. Why not open a macaroni and cheese restaurant? I think that would be a great idea, then I wouldn't have to make it whenever I get an urge to eat the macaroni and cheese. #1- I LIKE MY FREEDOM First of all, the reason I'm not making it right now is because it's too much trouble to make it good like that. I only make it once in a blue moon and only for very special occasions. But can you imagine the trouble of running a restaurant? You would be cooking all day, for one thing, worrying about a million things, like payroll and God knows what else. So, really, I've already told you why I'm not an entrepreneur in less than 250 words. That reason is I like my freedom. I have worked for other people since I was a teenager. The rest of the time I do what I want to do. Simple. If I had a business, that's all I would have time for, and I'm not sure I would be happy doing that. #2- I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO I have done so many things I enjoyed doing, I can't even imagine picking one of them and doing it all the time. What I have enjoyed the most was playing music in a country band in Cheyenne, Wyoming, but that is not something I can ever do again, I don't imagine. For one thing the only people who can be professional musicians at my age are people who have made it big when they were young. So, it's already too late for that. You can't even find five or six day a week sit-down gigs anymore, anyway. #3- I WOULDN'T KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS Running a band would also be like operating a business, and I would simply have no idea how to do that. I was diagnosed with Adult ADD in around 1990, I think. I didn't need the diagnosis to know that I had issues. They gave me Ritalin and that didn't help at all. #4- I AM TOO DISORGANIZED I am too disorganized and have no clue how people start a business, much less how to actually operate one. I am creative, but disorganized. I like to do a lot of things, but not the same thing all day long, and "keeping track of paper" is the one thing someone told me once I can't do. I can speak Spanish, I can paint portraits, I can tutor writing, I can write newspaper articles and features, I can do a lot of things, but I can't stay focused on one thing long enough to do it all the time. #5- I DON'T LIKE SELF PROMOTION I notice even these rich celebrities have to promote themselves all the time. That would drive me nuts. Even the Bible says let somebody else brag on you, don't brag on yourself. #6- I DON'T LIKE COMPETITION I don't like constantly trying to be better at something than someone else. That's another thing the Bible says. You're not supposed to compare yourself with other people. And that's what famous people have to do all the time. Of course they have people around them that create all that hoopla, but I think I like doing what I like to do too much to compete, plus I'm too old. If I was famous already, maybe I'd do it, but not now. Actually, no, I didn't like it when I was doing music professionally. I didn't crave the spotlight, I just loved to play and sing. Well, that's all I can think of at the moment. I need to go get some macaroni and cheese to eat (I can't get the yukky stuff they sell at the grocery store), I need to go to the gym and this is my only day off. Just imagine if I was an entrepreneur, chances are I wouldn't even have a day off. Anyway, I need a secretary and a house cleaner and if I'm ever going to decide what I want to do to make some big money, I'm going to have to be a part of a team anyway. My junior high phys. ed. teacher told me I didn't have any "leadership qualities," when I tried out for cheerleader once. That was a real ego booster, I'll tell you! So, I will probably not be a mac and cheese entrepreneur, it is just another of my crackpot ideas, which, if you choose, you can steal from me and run with it. I really don't care. I can't sit down long enough to worry about it. Later, gator.