From a talk Sean Bonner gave at Esalen:
My first job was a dishwasher at seafood restaurant Florida’s gulf coast, I was 14 and I got paid in cash under the table. Some of my friends were in bands and before long we decided they should have records but assumed there was no way any real record company would be interested so I saved up started my own. You could ask “why did you think as a high schooler you could just go start your own company?” and the only good answer I have is I didn’t know that I couldn’t. Over the next 5 or 6 years I put out about dozen albums by different bands, first releases for many and some of whom are still touring, playing live and writing new music today.
This experience had 3 long lasting impacts on my life:
- I realized anything is possible.
- I realized the seemingly small actions of one person can inspire someone else to do something amazing.
- It made me basically unemployable.
That last point is important because knowing the power of the individual and that limits are imaginary is incompatible with most corporate and business structures. I’ve had a few office jobs since then, they were… well, complicated.
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I think there’s a portion of
I think there’s a portion of me that thrives, and suffers, because I have been freelancing for some years!
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