[Seahawk]

Very interesting thread. Timing is crucial.

Like most here, I worked at a number of jobs tied to the clock in HS and college, even before.

Some really horrific efforts: My 50th HS Reunion in SC is coming up in May, my first reunion. The event will take place at a golf course in SC that I helped build as a laborer between my junior and senor years of HS.

Our "job" was to follow a flat bed truck down the freshly plowed fairways, the course was under construction, take a peach basket, fill it full of roots, return to truck, dump: Lather, rinse...

In the summer, in SC. As the old saying goes, I sweated more than Rosanne Barr on Jeopardy.

One of the many menial jobs but I did...nobody rode for free in my orbit as a kid.

My first taste of entrepreneurship started as a white water rafting guide in college...I started with a group out of Sacramento after the drought years in the '70's (if it is yellow, let it mellow, etc...).

I would not have gotten the job if there was not a drought...all the older boatmen and women had moved on.

So, I sold trips in the Bay Area for a percentage, did well at it and then started a company at 19 with two guys, school teachers, I worked with at the first place.

We did very well because, unlike a lot of other rafting companies in the late '70's, we knew we were in the entertainment business and acted accordingly.

Timing.

Many more adventures, but what I have learned over the years is don't fall in love with your efforts in your business: Plan, baseline, measure and react, change is good: there is no zero defect effort ever.